I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHERI have never opened with the QP – on principle.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All my games are real
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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This 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.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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 studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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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 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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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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