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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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.
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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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All my games are real
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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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’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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