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

Bobby Fischer

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

Fifteen People Years
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHER

Gambit Kings Opinion
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Men Psychology
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 hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
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
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
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
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Tragedy Winning
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER

House Invited White
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
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Past Thinking Years
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Involved Luck
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
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
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
All my games are real
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Real
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games

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