I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

More quotes by Bobby Fischer

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

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