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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.

Bobby Fischer

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Answered Ask Stupid Years
You are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess never Old Play
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Winning Years
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Night Winning
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Play
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Dog Games Immoral Prearranged Unethical
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Player World
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Men Psychology
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mistake Moving
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mind Sometimes Stills
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess Player
I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Needs World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
BOBBY FISCHER

Belong Country Everybody Men
I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
BOBBY FISCHER

International Looks Playboy
Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Day Game Learning Next
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Freedom Late Order Speech Too

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