I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
BOBBY FISCHERMy main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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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 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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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All my games are real
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Well, 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.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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.
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