I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHERIn my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHERI love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting 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.
BOBBY FISCHERThe United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
BOBBY FISCHERI like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHERComputers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHERTeach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHERAs Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHERI give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHERNobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHERI’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.
BOBBY FISCHERI have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERIn 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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