The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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.
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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 don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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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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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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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.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Chess demands total concentration
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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