Bobby Fischer Quotes

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

— Alexey Suetin

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

— Salo Flohr

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

— Alexander Kotov

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— Burt Hochberg

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

— Paul Keres

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

— Liz Garbus

“The problem with the Bobby Fischer theory is that Chappelle is not the kind of artist to meticulously plan ahead, let alone…

— Jason Zinoman

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

— Boris Spassky

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

— Frank Brady

I met Bobby Fischer in 1993 when he moved to Europe. I have mixed feelings about it. He was an idol, but…

— Judit Polgar

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him…

— Ben Kingsley

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

— Bruce Pandolfini

When I was 15, I became the youngest grandmaster in the world, breaking the record set by Bobby Fischer more than three…

— Judit Polgar

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where…

— Efim Geller

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones…

— Ben Kingsley

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought…

— Boris Spassky

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and…

— Rainn Wilson

I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer,…

— Garry Kasparov

Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and…

— Edmar Mednis

[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer -…

— Hikaru Nakamura

“Many of the one-liners teach volumes. Some summarize excellence in an entire field in one sentence. As Josh Waitzkin (page 577), chess…

— Timothy Ferriss

The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows…

— Marcel Duchamp

“10,000 hour” rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery…

— Sean Patrick

“Marketa really desired, with both her body and her senses, the women she considered Karel's mistresses. And she also desired them with…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Magnus Carlsen

Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves…

— Garry Kasparov

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible…

— Liz Garbus