Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time! -Alexander Kotov |
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents. -Yuri Balashov |
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess player who has ever lived. -Ken Smith |
Fischer is completely natural. He plays no roles. He’s like a child. Very, very simple. -Zita Rajcsanyi |
Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever. -Dave Regis |
Fischer sacrificed virtually everything most of us weakies value, respect, and cherish, for the sake of an artful, often beautiful board game, for the ambivalent privilege of being its greatest master. -Paul Kollar |
Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived. -Larry Evans |
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth. -Yasser Seirawan |
It began to feel as though you were playing against Chess itself. -Walter Shipman (on playing against Robert Fischer) |
It is difficult to play against Einstein’s theory. -Mikhail Tal (after his loss to Fischer) |
My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply. -Alexei Suetin |
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody. -Paul Keres |
I still hope to kill Fischer. -Boris Spassky |
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury. -Mig Greengard |
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board. -Mikhail Botvinnik |
With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time. -Burt Hochberg |
By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare. -David Levy |
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Bobby Fischer Quotes
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