Bobby Fischer Quotes

I'm a pretty good chess player.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

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

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

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.

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

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.