Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHERAll that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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All my games are real
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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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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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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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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