To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHERIn my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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 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.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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…
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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