I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERFIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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