There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
BOBBY FISCHERThey spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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 give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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