In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan Copy Share Image
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury — Mig Greengard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it. — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd… — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
“In drum spre varf, Viesturs a trecut pe langa cadravele inghetate ale lui Fischer si Hall. -Jean (sotia lui Fischer) si Jan(sotia… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“We may regard the cell quite apart from its familiar morphological aspects, and contemplate its constitution from the purely chemical standpoint. We… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face” — Nam Le Copy Share Image
Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived — Larry Evans Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov Copy Share Image
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image