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Chess demands total concentration

Bobby Fischer

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
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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Black Color Play White
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Night Winning
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Games Moving Strong
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Play Playing Chess Want
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Fifteen People Years
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Chess Giving Opponents
I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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Championship Chess Game Seriously
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Book Ends World
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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Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position
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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Freedom Late Order Speech Too
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games
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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Lying Moving Religious
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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Cells Coward Mind Prison
I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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Chess Game Needs World

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