Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHERI hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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I like to make them squirm.
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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 recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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