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 FISCHERI don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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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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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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All my games are real
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Chess is like war on a board
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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