Bobby Fischer Quotes

1943–2008 Iceland

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was a US-born chess Grandmaster who later renounced his US citizenship and became an Icelandic citizen in March 2005. He was World Chess Champion from 1972 to 1975.

Iceland

Also known as: Fischer, Bobby

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

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.

On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)

Tactics flow from a positionally superior game.

My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

I have played over several hundred of Morphy's games, and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

I have never opened with the QP – on principle.

My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)

They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. They are all fish.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

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.

I suggest rather than fraudulently misrepresenting me to be a Jew
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you try to promote your religion on its own merits--if indeed it has any!

They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

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.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bobby Fischer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.