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 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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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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