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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Bobby Fischer

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Losing Opponents
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Crush Game War
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Firsts Match Stolen
You are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess never Old Play
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Home Morning
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER

Against Law Reporter
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

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