Tactics flow from a superior position
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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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 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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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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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’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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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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