Bobby Fischer Quotes

Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

When someone attacks you, there is always an opportunity, and that's what I look for.

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

I don't think I have a favorite chess move, other than checkmate, because each move is part of a combination of other moves. Just like I don't have a favorite piece, because they all work together. I mean, I love myself; I am the king on the board, but other pieces do different things and they all work together, so it's not one particular move unless it's checkmate because usually there's an answer. You know, chess is about questions and answers.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

If I'm insulted I will counterattack, or if something is unfair, I will counterattack, but I don't feel like I insult people. I don't want to do that. But if I'm attacked, I will counterattack.

We get blows and return them.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.

You are the weirdest girl ever.” “Please. You live with Eve.

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

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)