I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
BOBBY FISCHERI give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I like to make them squirm.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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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 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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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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 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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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All my games are real
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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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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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 don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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Chess is like war on a board
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