I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
BOBBY FISCHERFIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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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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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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