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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHER

One Remember School Thing
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Firsts Match Stolen
The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
Tactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Flow Tactics
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Player Winning Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Chess Game Moving
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
All my games are real
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Real
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position

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