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.
BOBBY FISCHEREvery chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Chess demands total concentration
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Chess is like war on a board
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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