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Bobby Fischer

Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Thinking World
You are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess never Old Play
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Communism Firsts Mean Real Understand
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Answered Ask Stupid Years
Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Success Winning
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Airplanes Country Couple Showed
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
BOBBY FISCHER

Belong Country Everybody Men
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Kids People
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Decided Dress Priding Themselves
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Losing Thinking
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Playing Chess Want
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Winning Years
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
Tactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Flow Tactics
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
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!
BOBBY FISCHER

Contempt Dog Lowest Runner
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Giving Success
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong

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