Fischer has become more virulently anti-Jewish since ceasing to play competitive chess. In denying himself chess, therefore, is he, in fact, denying his own Jewishness? As Cockburn writes: 'No player has ever been such a walking advertisement for the Freudian interpretation of chess.'

I don't want him in my cell. I want a chick in my cell.

Bobby Fischer Site containing videos, stories, games, quotes, and sounds clips of the chess legend

I would not like to defend or justify Bobby Fischer. He is what he is. I am asking only for one thing. For mercy, charity. If for some reason it is impossible,…

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

Everything's different. You have to recognise the fact that I'm different. Time goes on, and you change. I'm coming into this as a different guy, that's probab…