Bobby Fischer Chess Quotations

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves

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.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

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

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

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

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.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

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

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

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

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

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

Different people feel differently about resigning

All my games are real

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

Chess is like war on a board

I add status to any tournament I attend.

I like to make them squirm.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

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

Chess demands total concentration

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

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

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

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.

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.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

You are never too old to play chess!

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

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.