That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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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.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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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.
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Chess is like war on a board
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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