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Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position
It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Littles Machines
I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
BOBBY FISCHER

Freedom Late Order Speech Too
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Losing Thinking
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHER

Gambit Kings Opinion
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Future Games White
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Play Stupid
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

International Looks Playboy
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Decided Dress Priding Themselves
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Think Thinking
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mind Training
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
BOBBY FISCHER

Airplanes Country Couple Showed
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War

Tactics flow from a superior position

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