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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

The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
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
Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHER

People Some Spoke
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Player World
Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Phony Thinking
I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
BOBBY FISCHER

Past Thinking Years
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Giving Success
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Winning Years
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Healing Humans Nothing Touch
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Body Every Reputation Success Winning
It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Littles Machines

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.

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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.

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