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Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

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

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

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

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

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

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

Haste, the great enemy.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

He who analyses blitz is stupid.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without first completing their chess studies. Deficiencies in education and a lack of certain basic knowledge will tell sooner or later; they will bump their head on the ceiling and will no longer be able to climb up to the stars.

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

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 definitely miss the rush from wiping out an opponent.

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.