When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
BOBBY FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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