They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Teach 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?
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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Chess is like war on a board
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The 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…
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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.
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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