Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
BOBBY FISCHERPeople have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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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 think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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