Quote #99
I love chess, and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it.
More from Bobby Fischer
- I'm finished with the old chess, it's rotten to the core
- The Russians have fixed world chess. (On the Curacao Candidates tournament, quoted in Sports Illustrated, August 1962)
- I don't play the old chess any more. The old chess is dead, it's been played out.
- All my games are real.
- I don't play the old chess. But obviously if I did, I would be the best.
- There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every tim…
- The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have …
- ...People don't know how utterly corrupt it [chess] is, and has been for many years...Just like when you go to watch a wrestling match, rig…