Best 118 quotes of Bobby Fischer on MyQuotes

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.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

All my games are real

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

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.

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.

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.

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

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.

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.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Chess is like war on a board

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Different people feel differently about resigning

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

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.

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.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

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.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

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

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.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

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.

I don't believe in hero worship.

I don't believe in psychology.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!

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.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

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.

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.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

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

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

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.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

I like to make them squirm.