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 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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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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.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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