They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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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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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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 don’t believe in psychology.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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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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