The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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All my games are real
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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