People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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You are never too old to play chess!
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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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 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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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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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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