Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHERI love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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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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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?
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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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