Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHERMaybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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 like to make them squirm.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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