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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.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Different Garbage Genius Happen Play
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
Tactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Flow Tactics
I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Destroy Love People
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Morphy Probably
Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Success Winning
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Losing Thinking
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
BOBBY FISCHER

Belong Country Everybody Men
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Think Thinking

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