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Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

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 FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Phony Thinking
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Answered Ask Stupid Years
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Kids People
Tactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Flow Tactics
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess Player
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Body Every Reputation Success Winning
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Different Garbage Genius Happen Play
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Night Winning
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHER

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