Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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I have never opened with the QP - on principle.
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I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
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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. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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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All my games are real
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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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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.
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He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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