I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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 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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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