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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

Bobby Fischer

You are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess never Old Play
I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Add Chess Tournaments
I don’t listen to weakies.
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Country Listen People Weakens
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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Champion Chess World
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Healing Humans Nothing Touch
I was never invited to the White House.
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House Invited White
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 Genius Know Nothing Piece
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Against Law Reporter
There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Games Half Player
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Expose Life Struggle World
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Chess Crush Game War
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Play Playing Chess Want
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Home Morning
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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Champion Chess Player
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Games Moving Strong
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.
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Manhattan People Player
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Chess Game Losing Thinking
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess Game Flow Tactics
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Country People Robbing Years
I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Believe Chess Game Moving
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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Belong Country Everybody Men
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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Country Future Games White
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Giving Opponents

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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