Fischer Quotes - Page 2

• Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

  Frank Brady

  Pride, Player, Mind

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• I still hope to kill Fischer

  Boris Spassky

  Chess, Stills

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• I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Player, Ideas, Genius

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• Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

  Mike Goodall

  Chess

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• Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

  Mig Greengard

  Tragedy, Chess

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• With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

  Burt Hochberg

  Player, Titles, Chess

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• I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Thinking, Impossible, Committed

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• Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

  Larry Evans

  Medicine, Giving, Chess

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• Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

  Larry Evans

  Player, World, Chess

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• It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

  Efim Geller

  Winning, Chess, Vulnerable

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• Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Chess

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• The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Unions, Chess

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• My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

  Alexey Suetin

  Play, Chess

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• Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

  Herbie Hancock

  Play, People, Ravel

  "Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People - the Music". Book by Julie Coryell and Laura Friedman, pp. 161-162, 1978.

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• I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

  Magnus Carlsen

  World, Firsts

  Source: theclassical.org

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• When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

  Mark Taimanov

  Powerful, Moving, Play

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• You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

  Ben Kingsley

  Want, Knows

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• I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

  Rainn Wilson

  Player, Games, Style

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

  Daniel Tammet

  Champion, Chess, Great American

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• I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

  Liz Garbus

  Thinking, Genius, Cocktails

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Party, Europe, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

  Mikhail Tal

  Women, Knights, Chess

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• [Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Fun, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: nerdist.com

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• If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

  Jon Krakauer

  Long, Might, Quoting

  Jon Krakauer (1998). “Into Thin Air”, p.175, Anchor

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• Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

  Salo Flohr

  Chess, Sane

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