Bobby Fischer Quotes

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

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

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

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

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.