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

Bobby Fischer

I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Play Stupid
I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
BOBBY FISCHER

Championship Chess Game Seriously
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
BOBBY FISCHER

Decided Dress Priding Themselves
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
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
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Future Games White
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHER

One Remember School Thing
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses

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