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 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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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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 grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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Chess is like war on a board
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