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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

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
These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
BOBBY FISCHER

Contempt Dog Lowest Runner
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Giving Success
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Out Want Wiped
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Evil United States World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Half Player
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country People Robbing Years
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Giving Opponents
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
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering
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

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