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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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