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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

Bobby Fischer

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Thinking World
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
Well, 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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Lying Moving Religious
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Think Thinking
I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Everybody Friend Needs Secret Something
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Morphy Probably
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Playing Chess Want
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

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