Books Quote by Boris Spassky

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

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

— Alexander Kotov

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

— Liz Garbus

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

— Frank Brady

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

The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are…

— Israel Albert Horowitz

There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will…

— Lisa Lane

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

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

— Mikhail Tal

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

— Boris Spassky

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

— Miguel Najdorf

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…

— Andrew Soltis