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 FISCHERPeople have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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All my games are real
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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