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.
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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
-
-
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER -
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER -
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER -
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER -
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER