When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and…

“Emil Fischer represents a symbol of Germany's greatness.”

— Carl Dietrich Harries

What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in all the…

— Hikaru Nakamura

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…

— Jerry Saltz

Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years…

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Andrew Soltis

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

— Bruce Pandolfini

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

— Paul Keres

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…

— Efim Geller

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

— Miguel Najdorf

“In drum spre varf, Viesturs a trecut pe langa cadravele inghetate ale lui Fischer si Hall. -Jean (sotia lui Fischer) si Jan(sotia lui Hall)…

— Jon Krakauer

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

— Hans Ree

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…

— Ronald Gross

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an…

— Bruce Pandolfini

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…

— Anatoly Karpov