I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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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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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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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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