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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.

Bobby Fischer

When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Player Winning Years
Chess demands total concentration
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Chess Demand Success
Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess Game Flow Tactics
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Tragedy Winning
If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Alekhine Games Play Seen
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
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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Believe Body Every Reputation Success Winning
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Death Out Want Wiped
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Chess Game Mistake Moving
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering
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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Mind Sometimes Stills
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Book Ends World
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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Myself Stopped Struggle Whole World
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Facts Psychology
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Back Brought Dead Opening
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
There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Half Player
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Chess Genius Morphy Probably
The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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Evil United States World
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens
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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Baseball Country Football
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
BOBBY FISCHER

Men People White Man
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
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 FISCHER

Book Firsts Match Stolen

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