5 Bobby Fischer Quotes on Psychology

Bobby Fischer quotes on psychology

10. I have a minus score (against Spassky). I lost 3 and drew 2. I was better than him when I lost those games. I pressed for the win. My overall tournament record is much better than his. I'm not afraid of him, he's afraid of me.

53. I like to make 'em squirm.

64. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

75. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.

135. 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.'