I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHERA lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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