I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERConcentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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All my games are real
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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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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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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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