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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess Game Flow Tactics
Chess is like war on a board
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Boards Chess War
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Kids People
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Firsts Match Stolen
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Done Image Nobody
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Play
Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Thinking World
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mistake Moving
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Everybody Friend Needs Secret Something
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHER

People Some Spoke
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Tragedy Winning

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