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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.

Bobby Fischer

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Needs World
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens
Well, 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 FISCHER

Mean Phony Thinking
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
BOBBY FISCHER

Baseball Country Football
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Tragedy Winning
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mind Sometimes Stills
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
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 like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Everybody Friend Needs Secret Something
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Out Want Wiped
Americans 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 FISCHER

Chess Thinking World
It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Littles Machines
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
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’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
I 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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fighting Hate Winning
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Crush Game War
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Losing Opponents
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
BOBBY FISCHER

Men People White Man
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER

House Invited White
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning

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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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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