All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERThis 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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 don’t believe in psychology.
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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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