Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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