Quotes from Bobby Fischer

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

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

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don't like to put things like that in print, it sounds so egotistical. But to answer your question, Yes."- Ginzburg interview, Harper's Magazine 1962

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se debe tener confianza en uno mismo y esa confianza debe estar basada en la realidad" (Bobby Fischer)

I'll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years." — Bobby Fischer, in 1971. Fischer, of course, did not keep his word and hid for 20 years instead of three.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

Chess is life

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.