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 FISCHERIf you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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 spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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 like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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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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