Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHERThe U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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 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.
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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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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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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