Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHERSteinitz 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Chess demands total concentration
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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