If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHERNobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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Chess demands total concentration
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I like to make them squirm.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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