Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHERNormally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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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 don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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