Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHERChess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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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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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I like to make them squirm.
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