Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischerwas an American chess grandmaster, the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. In 1972, he captured the World Chess Championship from Boris Spassky of the USSR in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland, publicized as a Cold War confrontation which attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth9 March 1943
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
Different people feel differently about resigning
I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.
Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.
Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.