Top 100 Quotes About Bobby Fischer
#1. I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.
Liz Garbus
#2. When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
Boris Spassky
#3. You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
Ben Kingsley
#4. Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
Alexander Kotov
#5. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
Frank Brady
#6. 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
#7. It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position
Efim Geller
#8. Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn't mean they are special.
Garry Kasparov
#9. How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.
Warren Buffett
#10. In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
Paul Keres
#11. Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Boris Spassky
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.
Edmar Mednis
#15. With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time
Burt Hochberg
#17. 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
#18. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
Bobby Fischer
#19. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
Bobby Fischer
#20. The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Bobby Fischer
#21. 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
#23. 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 (the Bible) an hour. You know, I
was half out of my head-stoned almost.
Bobby Fischer
#24. When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
Bobby Fischer
#26. I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
Bobby Fischer
#28. 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
#29. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
Bobby Fischer
#30. I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
Bobby Fischer
#31. Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
Bobby Fischer
#32. 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
#33. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
Bobby Fischer
#34. I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
Bobby Fischer
#35. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
Bobby Fischer
#36. I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
Bobby Fischer
#37. I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
Bobby Fischer
#38. You can only get good at Chess if you love the game
Bobby Fischer
#39. 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
#40. The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
Bobby Fischer
#41. I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
Bobby Fischer
#44. It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
Bobby Fischer
#45. I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
Bobby Fischer
#47. The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
Bobby Fischer
#48. 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.
Bobby Fischer
#49. Different people feel differently about resigning
Bobby Fischer
#50. I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
Bobby Fischer
#52. I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
Bobby Fischer
#54. The system set up by F.I.D.E ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion ... The Russians arranged it that way.
Bobby Fischer
#55. Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
Bobby Fischer
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
Bobby Fischer
#60. I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.
Bobby Fischer
#62. Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
Bobby Fischer
#63. There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
Bobby Fischer
#65. I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
Bobby Fischer
#66. I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.
Bobby Fischer
#67. Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
Bobby Fischer
#68. I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
Bobby Fischer
#70. I have never opened with the QP - on principle.
Bobby Fischer
#71. Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.
Bobby Fischer
#72. I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
Bobby Fischer
#73. All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
Bobby Fischer
#74. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
Bobby Fischer
#75. 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
#76. If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
Bobby Fischer
#78. I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
Bobby Fischer
#79. I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
Bobby Fischer
#80. Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
Bobby Fischer
#81. That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
Bobby Fischer
#82. A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
Bobby Fischer
#84. Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
Bobby Fischer
#85. Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
Bobby Fischer
#87. I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
Bobby Fischer
#88. Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
Bobby Fischer
#89. I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
Bobby Fischer
#90. 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.
Bobby Fischer
#91. I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
Bobby Fischer
#92. 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
#93. If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
Bobby Fischer
#94. I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
Bobby Fischer
#95. I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.
Bobby Fischer
#96. It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
Bobby Fischer
#97. Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer
#98. I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
Bobby Fischer
#99. You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances
Bobby Fischer
#100. I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
Bobby Fischer
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