Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERUltimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I like to make them squirm.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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 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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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.
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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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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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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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