Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHERChess is like war on a board
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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