Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHERSometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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