That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHERI 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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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I like to make them squirm.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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