All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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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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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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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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