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.
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.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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