My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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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.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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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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