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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant
In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
I've won the U.S. Championship. I've won a lot of tournaments.
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares
Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.
It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well
In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.
I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.
Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
I play different styles, and am very good at changing how I play.
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.
The biggest challenge is to fulfill your own ideas about yourself.
A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.
When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.
My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
How you lose matters. Don't be afraid of losing - it paralyzes you.
I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent
Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.
For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.
Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic