Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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I like to make them squirm.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess demands total concentration
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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