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.
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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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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