Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury — Mig Greengard Copy Share Image
Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified — Jeremy Silman Copy Share Image
Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder. — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail. — Liz Garbus 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
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 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
Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential… — Magnus Carlsen 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
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
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
Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know,… — Herbie Hancock 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
“When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don’t like to put things like that… — Bobby Fischer 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
[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 Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and… — Rainn Wilson 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
When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may… — Mark Taimanov Copy Share Image
In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan 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
“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
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![“[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.” quote by Michael Stuhlbarg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/119/michael-stuhlbarg-12244_championship_pawn-sacrifice-is-about-the-1972-chess-c_2730730.jpg)
