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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

Bobby Fischer

A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Night Winning
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
BOBBY FISCHER

Communism Firsts Mean Real Understand
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Dog Games Immoral Prearranged Unethical
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Giving Opponents
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Home Morning
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
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Lying Moving Religious
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Phony Thinking
If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Alekhine Games Play Seen
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Day Game Learning Next
A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Know Nothing Piece
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares

Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

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