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

  • 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

    Pride   Player   Mind  
  • 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.

    Kids   Hands   Chess  
  • 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.

    Senior   Eye   Challenges  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

    Play   Chess   Fischer  
  • As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.

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

    Style   Chess   Symbiosis  
  • Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

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

    Medicine   Giving   Chess  
  • 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."

    Player   Games   Style  
    Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.
  • Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

  • 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.

    Trying   Looks   Facts  
  • Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

    Chess   Fischer  
  • Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

    Chess   Fischer   Sane  
  • 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

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

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

    Chess   Boards   Analysis  
  • The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

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

    Women   Knights   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

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

    Tragedy   Chess   Fischer  
  • This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

    Usa   America   Citizens  
    "Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.
  • In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

  • 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.

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

    Player   Unions   Chess  
  • Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

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

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

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

  • Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

    Wall   Cutting   Creating  
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