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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Kids People
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Answered Ask Stupid Years
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
BOBBY FISCHER

Airplanes Country Couple Showed
A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Everybody Friend Needs Secret Something
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Giving Success
Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Body Every Reputation Success Winning
I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
BOBBY FISCHER

Past Thinking Years
A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Know Nothing Piece

I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

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