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 FISCHERThere 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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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.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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