Bobby Fischer Quotes

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

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Chess is mental torture.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is one long regret.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

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

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Life is a kind of chess.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.