I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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You are never too old to play chess!
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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