I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
BOBBY FISCHERIs it against the law to kill a reporter?
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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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 was never invited to the White House.
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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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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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