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.
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.
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.
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.
I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
Sometimes 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.
![Bobby Fischer Quote - I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/i-have-nothing-to-do-with-politics-i-came-here-yug-683x1024.jpg)
