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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Myself Stopped Struggle Whole World
As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHER

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

Chess Game Giving Success
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER

House Invited White
Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
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
The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess World
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Out Want Wiped
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
BOBBY FISCHER

Bustard Dirty Lying People
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Playing Chess Want
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
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Men Psychology
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Thinking World
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games

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