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.
BOBBY FISCHEROur 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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All my games are real
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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