I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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 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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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All my games are real
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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