A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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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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.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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