The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
BOBBY FISCHERAmerica is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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