A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative. Boris Spassky More Quotes by Boris Spassky More Quotes From Boris Spassky There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose! Boris Spassky pleasure doe chess Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. Boris Spassky modern player chess I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. Boris Spassky champion play thinking Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. Boris Spassky competition choices people The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. Boris Spassky unions player chess I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. Boris Spassky debt chess trying The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. Boris Spassky games attitude people I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some. Boris Spassky tournaments play I don't want ever to be champion again. Boris Spassky champion want On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches. Boris Spassky control think time world 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. Boris Spassky never me stronger television Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship. Boris Spassky annual nowadays championship world We were like bishops of opposite color. Boris Spassky opposite were like color
