The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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