Bobby Fischer Quotes

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.

The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I think what we focus on is every game is a different challenge, and you have to find ways to put yourself in position to win, and you have to have a resourcefulness, and it's not always going to go according to play.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

We have to take every game as it comes.

I like to keep teams off balance.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.