Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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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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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.
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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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