I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHERI have never opened with the QP – on principle.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I like to make them squirm.
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