As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHERMaybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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