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Chess is like war on a board

Bobby Fischer

They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHER

People Some Spoke
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Baseball Country Football
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER

House Invited White
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHER

Facts Matter Today
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
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…
BOBBY FISCHER

Belong Country Everybody Men
I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Chess Game Moving
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER

Against Law Reporter
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering

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