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Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHER

Back Brought Dead Opening
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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Belong Country Everybody Men
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Chess Giving Opponents
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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Black Color Play White
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
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
There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Half Player
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.
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Believe Body Every Reputation Success Winning
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Communism Firsts Mean Real Understand
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
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Chess Losing Opponents
I don’t listen to weakies.
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Country Listen People Weakens
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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Chess Game Needs World
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Medicine Play Winning
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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Evil United States World
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Champion Titles World
When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Baseball Country Football
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Chess Game Moving Psychology
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.
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Freedom Late Order Speech Too
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Asylums Government Political
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Winning Years
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER

House Invited White
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Crush Game War
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
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Chess Genius Morphy Probably

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