Bobby Fischer Quotes

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

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

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

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

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.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

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

It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.

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 chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

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.

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

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.

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

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

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

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Chess demands total concentration

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.