Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHERMy opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I like to make them squirm.
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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All my games are real
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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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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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