A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
BOBBY FISCHERSo if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I like to make them squirm.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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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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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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