Fischer Quotes

• In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

  Paul Keres

  Chess, Complicated, Position

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• Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

  Jeremy Silman

  Mad, May, Chess

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• It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

  Mikhail Tal

  Loss, Chess Game, Play

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• You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

  Andrew Soltis

  Chess Game, Playing Chess, Knows

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• There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest was high. Six hundred senior managers came to the meeting. In the end, there was tremendous applause for Fischer, because he offered a precise analysis of the challenges our industry faces worldwide.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Senior, Eye, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

  Isaac Kashdan

  Queens, Hands, Chess Game

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• Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

  Liz Garbus

  Player, Community, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

  Mikhail Tal

  Heaven, Genius, Chess

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• When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Games, Chess Game

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• Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

  Miguel Najdorf

  Chess

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• By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

  Garry Kasparov

  Champion, World, Chess

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• Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

  Alexander Kotov

  Chess, Genius, All Time

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• Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

  Hans Ree

  Funny Things, Games, Play

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• Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Kings, Opponents, Chess

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• The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Time, Years, Chess

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• Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
  Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Chess, Boards, Analysis

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• What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Trying, Looks, Facts

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• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Usa, America, Citizens

  "Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

  Ben Kingsley

  Art, Fun, Thinking

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• Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

  Yuri Balashov

  Chess Pieces, Chess Game, Opponents

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• Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

  Larry Evans

  Law, Chess

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• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  Boris Spassky

  Literature, Chess, Enormous

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• Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

  Mike Goodall

  Chess

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• I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Player, Ideas, Genius

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• In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

  Garry Kasparov

  America, Chess, Facts

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