People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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.
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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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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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