Bobby Fischer Quotes

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

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

The point system certainly governs a Grandmaster's decisions, but it can be outweighed in any given position by more important factors.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

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.

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.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

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

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

No matter how badly you play, unless you make a flat-out blunder, there's always going to be some narrow path to being able to save the game and draw instead of losing.

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

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.