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.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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