Chess Quote by Larry Evans

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

— Larry Evans

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

— Larry Evans

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 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

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

— Hans Ree

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

— Larry Evans

Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years…

— Garry Kasparov

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

— Garry Kasparov

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

— Andrew Soltis

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to…

— Bruce Pandolfini

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

— Paul Keres

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often…

— Efim Geller