Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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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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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.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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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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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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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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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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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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