I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERChess is like war on a board
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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