That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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.
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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