Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERNothing eases suffering like human touch.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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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.
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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 like to make them squirm.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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