There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it. Bobby Fischer More Quotes by Bobby Fischer More Quotes From Bobby Fischer The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is. Bobby Fischer united-states evil world I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent Bobby Fischer chess-game success giving Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. Bobby Fischer chess-game crush war Blitz chess kills your ideas. Bobby Fischer blitz chess ideas You can only get good at Chess if you love the game Bobby Fischer chess-game learning games He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory. Bobby Fischer kings father school All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves. Bobby Fischer chess-game psychology moving I like to make them squirm. Bobby Fischer psychology chess Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind Bobby Fischer chess-game training mind 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. Bobby Fischer chess kids people Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. Bobby Fischer white-man men people First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism. Bobby Fischer real mean firsts Nothing eases suffering like human touch. Bobby Fischer humans suffering ease I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident. Bobby Fischer wells knows can-do All I want to do, ever, is play chess. Bobby Fischer playing-chess want play I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. Bobby Fischer book dull people I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me. Bobby Fischer changed would-be world Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. Bobby Fischer chess-game finals games I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind. Bobby Fischer doubt years moving Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. Bobby Fischer religious lying moving