All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERAll I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERMy opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHERWell, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHERWhen 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 FISCHERMaybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHERWhen I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHERSo if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans 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 FISCHERI usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
BOBBY FISCHERI play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHERPeople have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHEREvery chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
BOBBY FISCHERFirst 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 FISCHERIt’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER