Bobby Fischer Quotes

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

Irregular war is far more intellectual than a bayonet charge.

Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

I regard sledging, chirping, whatever you want to call it, as one of the weapons at my disposal.

I used to come out and say I was targeting certain players in the opposition team, particularly players I had had success against in the past: Gary Kirsten, Brian Lara and Michael Atherton, for example. It is a mental part of the game.

If I know my showboating bothers you, I'll keep doing it. If playing with your mind is part of the arsenal, and I know it works, then I'm going to continue doing it.

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Chess demands total concentration

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.