I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERChess demands total concentration
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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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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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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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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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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 don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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