All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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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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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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