Fischer Quotes
48 Fischer quotes by 30 unique authors
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With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time
— Burt Hochberg
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Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop…
— Bruce Pandolfini
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I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American…
— Bruce Pandolfini
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Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer
— Unknown Author
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Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was…
— Mikhail Tal
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
— Boris Spassky
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What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their…
— Ben Kingsley
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Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he…
— Garry Kasparov
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This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most…
— Anatoly Karpov
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I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
— Garry Kasparov
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What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try…
— Magnus Carlsen
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Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more…
— Edmar Mednis
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Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
— Mikhail Tal
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I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able…
— Mark Taimanov
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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it…
— Herbie Hancock
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Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing…
— Jerry Saltz
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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
— Boris Spassky
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Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
— Daniel Tammet
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If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point…
— Jon Krakauer
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My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there…
— Myron Scholes
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When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally.…
— Boris Spassky
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin Henry Fischer
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Fischer Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 48 Fischer Quotes, led by these top contributors: