I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERChess is like war on a board
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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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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Chess demands total concentration
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All my games are real
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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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