I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERMorphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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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.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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…
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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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