Bobby Fischer: Trending quotes

“White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.”

Bobby Fischer

On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit http://www.chesscafe.com/text/bust.pdf (1960)
1960s

“Jews hate nature and the natural order, because it's pure and beautiful, and also because it's bigger and stronger than they are, and they feel that they can not fully control it. Nature's beauty and harmony stands in stark contrast to their squalidness and ugliness, and that makes them hate it all the more. Jews are destroyers. They are anti-humans.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, February 19 2005 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_31_2.MP3I 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.Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
2000s

Hate , Beauty , Feeling , Nature

“They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. They are all fish.”

Bobby Fischer

On women chess players, in 1961, as quoted in "He was more fun when he was in the pawn squad", The Guardian (22 April 2007) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/22/sportandleisure.features
1960s

Fish

“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.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

Game

“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.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

Women , Men , Stupidity , World

“I like the moment when I break a man's ego”

Bobby Fischer

“You don't learn anything in school. It's just a waste of time. You lug around books and all and do homework. They give too much homework. You shouldn't be doing homework. Nobody's interested in it. The teachers are stupid. They shouldn't have any women in there. They don't know how to teach. And they shouldn't make anyone go to school. You don't want to go, you don't go, that's all. It's ridiculous. I don't remember one thing I learned in school. I don't listen to weakies. My two and a half years in Erasmus High I wasted. I didn't like the whole thing. You have to mix with all those stupid kids. The teachers are even stupider than the kids. They talk down to the kids. Half of them are crazy. If they'd have let me, I would have quit before I was sixteen.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

Women , Books , Stupidity , School

“I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

People , Books , Religion , Sense

“Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.”

Bobby Fischer

1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

People , Support

“I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_1.MP3
2000s

“My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, March 10 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_05_4.MP3
1990s

Life , Death , God , World

“They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, March 10 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_05_3.MP3
1990s

People , History , Lying

“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!”

Bobby Fischer

Press Conference, September 1 1992 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles6.html
1990s

People , Truth , Books , Dogs

“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 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 memorization and prearrangement like it is today.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3
1990s

Love , People , Game , Change

“Nothing eases suffering like human touch.”

Bobby Fischer

Source: Chess Meets of the Century

Suffering

“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia… The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense are dirty Jews.”

Bobby Fischer

Source: Radio Interview, May 24 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_07_2.MP3

“You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_20_1.MP3
2000s

Books

“Morphy and Capablanca had enormous talent, they are two of my favorites. Steinitz was very great too. Alekhine was great, but I am not a big fan of his. Maybe it’s just my taste. I’ve studied his games a lot, but I much prefer Capablanca and Morphy. Alekhine had a rather heavy style, Capablanca was much more brilliant and talented, he had a real light touch. Everyone I’ve spoken to who saw Capablanca play still speak of him with awe. If you showed him any position he would instantly tell you the right move. When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since. Capablanca really was fantastic. But even he had his weaknesses, especially when you play over his games with his notes he would make idiotic statements like 'I played the rest of the game perfectly.”

Bobby Fischer

But then you play through the moves and it is not true at all. 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.
Radio Interview, October 16 2006 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_35_3.MP3

People , Game , Study , Light

“I follow the old chess, I follow all the pre-arranged matches, like the last Kramnik-Kasparov match. At the highest level it is all pre-arranged, move by move. You have very interesting, beautiful pre-arranged games being created by very intelligent players, working with computers, working in teams. I have no objections to people creating such games, but they must say these are pre-arranged games, but they must not claim that they are finding the moves over the board.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://en.chessbase.com/post/i-m-finished-with-the-old-che-it-s-rotten-to-the-core-
2000s

People , Beauty , Game , Intelligence

“I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost.”

Bobby Fischer

1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

Home , Study , Time , Dead