Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHERI love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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