So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHERChess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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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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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Nothing eases suffering like 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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