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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Championship Chess Game Seriously
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Involved Luck
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
There 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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Half Player
The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
BOBBY FISCHER

Evil United States World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Men Psychology
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHER

Facts Matter Today
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Play
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want
I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Needs World
I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fighting Hate Winning

So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.

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