Talk:Bobby Fischer

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Though Fischer's anti-semitism is well attested to, and I do not greatly doubt he would make such a remark as this article began with, I think strongly derogatory comments attributed to anyone about anyone should be provided with a source, or ommitted--- at the very least they should be clearly labelled as "attributed". ~ Achilles 03:53, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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• • I agree, thus I have placed these very EXTREME comments in the talk page:

1. "I want to kill everyone! The world must burn!"
2. "Hitler is my hero. I love him."

once a source is found, they may be corrected and placed back PEACE ~ RoboAction 07:46, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Reorganisation

This may be controversial, but I tried to organise things a bit more chronologically. I'm not trying to bury Fischer's views on Jews, the US, Russians, Kasparov but he first became famous as a chess player, so I thought his views on chess should come first. Also, and this is in no way a defence of his views, a more chronological listing might allow people to see how his views have developed. There is a case to be made that his bizarre and offensive personality traits were encouraged and allowed to develop unchecked after he was catapulted to international fame at the age of 13.

Ewen

[edit] Citizenship

The title says that Fischer is an "American chess player", despite the fact of receiving the full Icelandic citizenship a year ago. I know that he will always be associated to be an american, but shouldn't the term be corrected nonetheless?

[edit] Unsourced

Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Bobby Fischer. --Antiquary 19:14, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

• Chess is life.
• My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
• When I was eleven, I just got good.
• The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
• All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
• All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
• I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.
• I like to make 'em squirm.
• I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
• There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.
• You can only get good at chess if you love the game.
• Chess demands total concentration and a love for the game.
• I give 98 per cent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only two per cent.
• Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.
• I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
• Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
• People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
• It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.
• Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.
• I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
• You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances.
• That's chess, you know. One day you give a lesson, the next day your opponent gives you a lesson.
  • (1992, after Spassky had beaten him in game 4 of their rematch).
• I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.
• You know, I can beat all those guys.
• There's no one alive I can't beat.
• Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.
• I add status to any tournament I attend.
• Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
• If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
• Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.
• Chess is a matter of delicate judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
• I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good chess.
• I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
• It's pretty tough because of all the tension and all the concentration, sitting there hour after hour. It's...exhausting.
• Theoretically, I think the game is a definite draw.
• I wanted to give them something to think about when they prepare for me in future tournaments. (on why he played 1.d4, 1.c4 & 1.Nf3 a few times)
• It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate! (on playing against the Sicilian Dragon)
• For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.
  • Advice to his biographer, Frank Brady, who had asked for chess lessons
• Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
• My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration.
• It's like taking a five hour final examination.
• Different people feel differently about resigning.
• It doesn't pay to be petty like they are.
• I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!
• The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
• Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway! (on My 60 Memorable Games)
• I don't need them to correct anything for me, even with the help of computers. Of course the book has mistakes, but I can correct them myself. They changed my things on purpose. (on changes made to the new edition of My 60 Memorable Games)
• 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?
• I don't play the old chess. But obviously if I did, I would be the best.
• I don't play the old chess any more. The old chess is dead, it's been played out.
• I'm finished with the old chess, it's rotten to the core
• I love chess, and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it.
• ...People don't know how utterly corrupt it [chess] is, and has been for many years...Just like when you go to watch a wrestling match, right? Saturday night wrestling. They are very good wrestlers, but anybody with half a brain knows it's almost all prearranged.
• You know, up until now they [the Jews] have more or less been satisfied to kind of attack my name, to exploit my name, to violate my rights, to violate my intellectual property rights, to violate my contracts; now, this is a new level, they're just stealing my belongings. Stuff worth millions, tens of millions, maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars, they just went and stole it.
• The US government and American Jewry are virtually interchangeable.
• There is no United States as people think of it. It's just a puppet in the Jew's hands. It's a plaything for the Jews.
• The Jews don't want me to succeed in any of my projects. They want me to be a failure.
• They want to utterly destroy my reputation for all time. Jews are vicious rats.
• Because I beat the Jews in chess. I beat them badly too, I beat them very badly... Plus, on top of that I exposed them as cheating in chess! As outright crooks. Plus, I exposed the holocaust as never happened. Totally made up. The Jews are goddamn liars. There is not a shred of truth to this holocaust.

— On why he is being persecuted by the Jews

• Morphy was really the world champion. That's also a Jewish conspiracy, because he was a Catholic and they tried to say he wasn't the world champion so they could promote Steinitz, who was a Jew, as the first world champion... There was a huge conspiracy against Paul Morphy... He has no stamp! Paul Morphy has no stamp. This Jewish bitch I Love Lucy. She got a stamp! And nobody compared to Paul Morphy. All kind of Jewish actors, comedians, doctors... but Paul Morphy has never gotten a stamp. Obviously the Jews have an insane hatred toward him.

— On the great 19th century American chess player Paul Morphy

• Almost everyone who has been around me turned out to be a secret agent working for the Jews, working for the CIA... The Jews have planted so many of their Jew agents and CIA rats all around me. So many people... Girlfriends, lawyers, everybody almost, turned out to be working for the CIA and the Jews! Unbelievable but true.
• My basic thesis is that the Jews are a criminal people, and the Jews completely control the United States, and the Jews are using the United States as a vehicle to take over the World.

— On being asked what he hoped to achieve by giving radio interviews

• I'd like to see all Jews be lesbians and homos. That would solve the problem with the Jews, there'd be no more Jews, no?
• They are jealous of me in every way! They're jealous of my talent, they're jealous of my looks, they're jealous of my potency, they're jealous of my chess! They're just jealous bastards. They are ugly, they are jealous...I was over in Israel, I went to a change room a few times. I saw their penises...they are pitiful, they are small, they are just...dry, you know, all of them circumsized. Just very sad. I understand they're jealous.
• When leaving Japan for Iceland on March 23. 2005, Bobby Fischer was asked about his arrest in Japan. He responded: "This was not an arrest. This was a kidnapping. This was all cooked up by Bush and Koizumi. They are all war criminals. They should be hung."