Changed 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

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 only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

— Viktor Korchnoi

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

— Boris Spassky

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

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess…

— John Nunn

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

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

— Lodewijk Prins

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy…

— Garry Kasparov

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

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

— Alexander Kotov

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

— Mig Greengard