I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHERI have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERUltimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
BOBBY FISCHERYeah, 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?
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHERSometimes 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 FISCHERThe 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 FISCHERThere was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
BOBBY FISCHERIf you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHERI think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans 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.
BOBBY FISCHERTactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHERIn my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
BOBBY FISCHERWell, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
BOBBY FISCHER