I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing is so healing as the human touch.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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?
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I like to make them squirm.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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