Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Chess demands total concentration
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I was never invited to the White House.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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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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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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