If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHEREvery chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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The 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.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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All my games are real
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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.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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