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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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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.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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