A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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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.
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