Ability Quote by Bruce Pandolfini

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

— Alexander Kotov

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

— Burt Hochberg

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

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

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I…

— Magnus Carlsen

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

— Boris Spassky

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

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

— Mikhail Tal

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

— Dave Regis

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

— Viktor Korchnoi

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