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All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Bobby Fischer

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Play Stupid
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Losing Thinking
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Chess Losing Opponents
To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Giving Giving Up Squares
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Gambit Kings Opinion
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess Genius Play
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Games Tragedy Winning
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Ease Humans Suffering
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.
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Girl Stars Writing
You are never too old to play chess!
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Chess never Old Play
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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Ought Positional Square Until Use
I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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Championship Chess Game Seriously
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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Country Future Games White
Chess demands total concentration
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Chess Demand Success
I was never invited to the White House.
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House Invited White
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Chess Involved Luck
Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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People Some Spoke
They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Decided Dress Priding Themselves
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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Book Firsts Match Stolen
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Country Open People Principles
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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Airplanes Country Couple Showed
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Chess Game Moving Psychology
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Answered Ask Stupid Years
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Death Out Want Wiped
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Book Ends World
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Chess Next Play

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