Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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Chess is like war on a board
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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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