Quote #14

'They're claiming that this criminal Jew Garry Kasparov -- his real name is Garry Weinstein -- is the World Champion. Which he's not, in any way. He's a common crook. He should be in prison. He should be in prison for his crimes. He has pre-arranged, in his life, thousands of games. Thousands of games. Every single tournament or match game he's ever played with Karpov was pre-arranged. Every goddamn game, and it was pre-arranged move by move. He is a crook on a big scale.' ~ Bobby Fischer

More from Garry Kasparov

  1. 'He's a goddamn liar, Kasparov, he's a criminal' ~ Bobby Fischer
  2. 'The future of chess lies in the hands of this young man' ~ Mikhail Botvinnik
  3. He was less concerned about the position's evaluation than about the character of the arising struggle. If he liked the character of the ba…
  4. Spassky was the first great chess player to use both 1.e4 and 1.d4 with equal success. He managed to employ these moves more harmoniously t…
  5. It is characteristic that Spassky has never in his life started a game with 1.Nf3. He must have considered it a 'semi-move', real moves bei…
  6. The universal chess style, characterized by the ability to play quite different types of chess positions, is considered by many to derive f…
  7. I believe that judged by his style of play, Spassky is much closer to Alekhine and Tal than to Smyslov, Botvinnik, or Petrosian. This is pr…
  8. What was the secret of Morphy's invincibility? I think it was a combination of a unique natural talent and brilliant erudition. His play wa…

All Garry Kasparov quotes