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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.

— Bobby Fischer

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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.

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