Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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