I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I like to make them squirm.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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All my games are real
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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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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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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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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 ever want to do is just play chess.
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