Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHERI would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All my games are real
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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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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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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.
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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 like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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