Bobby Fischer citations

Robert James Fischer, dit Bobby Fischer, né le 9 mars 1943 à Chicago aux États-Unis et mort le 17 janvier 2008 à Reykjavik en Islande, est un joueur d'échecs américain, naturalisé islandais en 2005.

Champion des États-Unis à quatorze ans en 1957-1958, il devient champion du monde en 1972 en remportant, sur fond de guerre froide, le « match du siècle » à Reykjavik face au Soviétique Boris Spassky.

Il contribua de façon décisive, par ses revendications lors des tournois, à l'amélioration de la condition de joueur d'échecs professionnel, tant du point de vue financier que de l'organisation matérielle des tournois.

Après s'être retiré de toutes les compétitions en 1972, Fischer disputa en 1992, à Sveti Stefan et à Belgrade, pendant les guerres de Yougoslavie, un match revanche contre son adversaire de 1972, Boris Spassky, en violation de l'embargo proclamé par le département d'État américain. Menacé de poursuites par son pays, il termina sa vie en exil ; d'abord en Hongrie, puis au Japon, de janvier 2000 à mars 2005, et enfin en Islande, de 2005 à 2008. Il y multiplia les déclarations antisémites et anti-américaines.

✵ 9. mars 1943 – 17. janvier 2008   •   Autres noms Роберт Джеймс Фишер
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Bobby Fischer: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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

“Nothing eases suffering like human touch.”

Source: Chess Meets of the Century

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

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

“I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.”

Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24, 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryuMf8qZ0g
2000s

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

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

“Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me, I really believe this. When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. I turned all that around single-handedly”

Radio Interview, September 11 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_19_1.MP3
Contexte: Look at all I've done for the US. Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me, I really believe this. When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. I turned all that around single-handedly, right? But I was useful then because there was the Cold War, right? But now I'm not useful anymore, you see, the Cold War is over, and now they want to wipe me out, steal everything I have, put me in prison, and so on.

“When I was eleven, I just got good.”

1960s, My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

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