Bobby Fischer Quotes - Page 4

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• Tactics flow from a superior position

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Tactics, Flow

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• You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Moving, Fighting

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• For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Lessons, Want

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• In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

  Bobby Fischer

  Kings, Opinion, Gambit

  "A bust to the King's Gambit" by Bobby Fischer, 1960.

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• There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Luck, Chess, Involved

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• But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Mind, Twenties

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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• 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

  Religious, Lying, Moving

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Ambassador Report Interview with Len Zola, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

  Bobby Fischer

  Mistake, Moving, Chess Game

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• The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

  Bobby Fischer

  Hands, Black, Example

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• I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

  Bobby Fischer

  Sports, Hate, Buttons

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• It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

  Bobby Fischer

  "Mullah Mohammad Omar in Hiding, Afghanistan's Road Dangers, Bobby Fischer", www.foxnews.com. December 05, 2001.

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• I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Chess, Scientist

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• I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Chess Game, World

  "Chess Digest Magazine", Volume 4, 1971.

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• Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

  Bobby Fischer

  Healing, Humans

  "The end game of Bobby Fischer". www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2008.

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• There's no one alive I can't beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Alive, Chess, Beats

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• Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Mind, Sometimes, Stills

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Interview with Len Zola, Ambassador Report Magazine, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Twenties, Mature

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• Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...

  Bobby Fischer

  Done

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. September 11, 2001.

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• Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  America, Yugoslavia, Play

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• I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Genius, Chess

  "Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Morning, Home, Chess

  "Scorecard" by Robert H. Boyle, www.si.com. November 21, 1977.

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• I have never opened with the QP - on principle.

  Bobby Fischer

  Principles

  "My 60 Memorable Games". Book by Bobby Fischer, 1969.

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• I don't believe in hero worship.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Hero, Worship

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• All my games are real

  Bobby Fischer

  Real, Games, Chess

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