I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERThey asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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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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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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