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.
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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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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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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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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All my games are real
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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