Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
BOBBY FISCHERTactics flow from a superior position
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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.
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All my games are real
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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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.
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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.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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