Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHERI consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All my games are real
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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