I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
BOBBY FISCHERI am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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All my games are real
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Steinitz 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.
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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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