My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHERA strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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 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.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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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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