If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHERIs it against the law to kill a reporter?
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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’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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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 don’t believe in psychology.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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