If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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 was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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You are never too old to 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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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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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 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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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All my games are real
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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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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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