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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.

Bobby Fischer

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Games Half Player
So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Back Brought Dead Opening
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Every Chess Final Game
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Country People Robbing Years
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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Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Play Playing Chess Want
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Death Out Want Wiped
I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Believe Chess Game Moving
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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Evil United States World
A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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Chess Type Come Gamer People
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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Championship Chess Game Seriously
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Blitz Chess Ideas
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mind Training
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHER

Gambit Kings Opinion

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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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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