Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHERAll I ever want to do is just play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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?
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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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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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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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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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