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.
BOBBY FISCHERTeach 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?
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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All my games are real
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Chess is like war on a board
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