Bobby Fischer Quotes about Chess

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

I like to make them squirm.

You are never too old to play chess!

Chess demands total concentration

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

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.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

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

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

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

All my games are real

I add status to any tournament I attend.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

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

Chess is like war on a board