Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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’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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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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