I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERI was never invited to the White House.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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All my games are real
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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