Fischer Quotes

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn’t mean they are special.

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

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)

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.

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.

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.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

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

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he did not lose a single game with the King's Gambit, and among those defeated were numerous strong players of all generations, from Averbakh, Bronstein and Fischer, to Seirawan.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

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

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

Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

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

Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

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

I still hope to kill Fischer

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

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

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

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

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

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

[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.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

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

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

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."

There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest was high. Six hundred senior managers came to the meeting. In the end, there was tremendous applause for Fischer, because he offered a precise analysis of the challenges our industry faces worldwide.

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

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.