Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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