They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHERThe system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess is like war on a board
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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 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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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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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