Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHERThese 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!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess is like war on a board
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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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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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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