Home / Authors / Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer Quotes

Chess Player

Bobby Fischer, born on March 9, 1943, in New York, USA, was a brilliant chess player. He became the World Champion in 1963, one of the youngest in history. Fischer was known for his unique openings and tactical innovations, which had a profound impact on the development of chess.

Filter quotes by topic

All Chess Knows Games Play Chess Game World People Player Giving Ifs Winning Moving Success Chess Players Years Beats Opponents Wells Book Championship

Famous Bobby Fischer Quotes

“I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!”

Shows Bigs Care Games Shots Don't Care I Don't Care Big Shots

Author:Bobby Fischer

“If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.”

Ifs Games Alekhine

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.”

Games Hours Five Finals Chess Exam Chess Game Final Exams

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.”

Giving Trying Long Ideas Moving Games Strong Behinds Pieces Position Weakness Opening Opponents Scope Variation Pawns Cramps

Author:Bobby Fischer

“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.”

People Knows Running Kids Used Games Social Player Groups Like You Dignity Faults Clubs Chess Noise Used To Be Suits Ties Gentleman Sneakers Chess Players Madhouses Gentlemanly

Author:Bobby Fischer

“There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.”

Games Half Player Draws Other Half Ahead Of Time Collusion

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.”

Knows Looks Made Play Games Fronts Stupid Dumb Boards Suggestions Jerk Really Stupid

Author:Bobby Fischer

“But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.”

Mind Said Wanted Games Felt Terrible Right Now Twenties Chess Spokes Capablanca

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.”

Knows Play Games Simple Player Decided Chess Tricks Opening Brilliance Chess Players Endgame Capablanca

Author:Bobby Fischer

“All my games are real”

Real Games Chess

Author:Bobby Fischer

“You can only get good at Chess if you love the game”

Ifs Games Learning Chess Chess Game

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.”

Thinking Games Draws Chess Definite Chess Game

Author:Bobby Fischer

“If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.”

Ifs Happens Games Winning Loses Worst Losing Tragedy Chess Great Tragedy

Author:Bobby Fischer

“They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.”

Knows Men World Giving Stills I Can Play Games Loses Player Stupid Beats Weak Chess Odds Knights Beginners

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.”

Knows Seems Games Class Taken Dresses Yeah Jew Chess

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.”

People Want Kind Today Games Pieces Dying Position Type Starting Come Up Chess All Kinds Boards Not Interested Making Changes Chess Game Flavour

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.”

Thinking Trying Years Today Past Games Sitting Years Ago Exciting Chess Clock Chairs Not Interested Rocking Chairs Dwell On The Past

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!”

People Ifs Knows Book Would Be Guy Games Dog Chess Destroyed Contempt Runners Lowest Immoral Johnson Unethical Karpov

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”

Wanted Form Games Felt Scientist Chess Treated

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.”

World Years Play Hate Fighting Three Games Winning Risk Masters Draws I Hate Western Chess Titles Dull Three Years Championship Ruined Play To Win

Author:Bobby Fischer

About the Author

Born: March 9, 1943
Died: January 17, 2008
Known for: Chess Player
Quotes: 140

Related Topics

Chess Knows Games Play Chess Game World People Player Giving Ifs Winning Moving Success Chess Players Years Beats Opponents Wells Book Championship

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Bobby Fischer's Chess GamesRelated source material

My 60 Memorable Games: chess tactics, chess strategies with Bobby FischerRelated source material

Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972Related source material

Similar Authors

Siegbert TarraschBrowse related quotes
Savielly TartakowerBrowse related quotes
Jose Raul CapablancaBrowse related quotes
Mikhail BotvinnikBrowse related quotes
Emanuel LaskerBrowse related quotes
Mikhail TalBrowse related quotes
Alexander AlekhineBrowse related quotes
Anatoly KarpovBrowse related quotes
Magnus CarlsenBrowse related quotes
David BronsteinBrowse related quotes