Quotes by Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

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

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Success

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.

Mature

Player

Twenties

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Chess

Play

Want

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

Play

Playing Chess

Want

All my games are real

Chess

Games

Real

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

Chess Game

Moving

Psychology

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

America

Mean

Yugoslavia

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.

Believe

Night

Winning

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Blitz

Chess

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.

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Twenties

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Quotes by Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

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

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 ever want to do is just play chess.

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…

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.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

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