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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!

Bobby Fischer

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Champion Titles World
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
Chess is like war on a board
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Boards Chess War
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Chess Giving Opponents
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Country Open People Principles
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Medicine Play Winning
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Cells Coward Mind Prison
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Chess Game Moving Psychology
A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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Chess Type Come Gamer People
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.
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Long Player Winning
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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Championship Chess Game Seriously
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Chess Game Giving Success
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.
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Champion Chess World
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.
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Chess Everybody Friend Needs Secret Something
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Chess Next Play
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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People Some Spoke

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