If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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