"I still hope to kill Fischer" — Boris Spassky

"I still hope to kill Fischer"

— Boris Spassky

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33 Quotes by Boris Spassky

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There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time…
After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy…
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit…
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I…
I don't want ever to be champion again.
Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from…
The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the…
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. — Alexander Alekhine
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex… — Steve Carell
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. — Winston Churchill
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. — Woody Allen

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