Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHERThat’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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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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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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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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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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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.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Nothing is so healing as the 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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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