They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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 don’t listen to weakies.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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…
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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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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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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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