A Quote by Boris Spassky

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

Boris Spassky

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Boris Spassky
Russian - Celebrity
Born: January 30, 1937

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

Liz Garbus

As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.

Andrew Soltis

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

Rainn Wilson

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

Viktor Korchnoi

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

Ronald Gross

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Frank Brady

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Boris Spassky

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Hans Ree

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Daniel Tammet

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

Alexander Kotov

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

Mikhail Tal

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Miguel Najdorf

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Mig Greengard

Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he did not lose a single game with the King's Gambit, and among those defeated were numerous strong players of all generations, from Averbakh, Bronstein and Fischer, to Seirawan.

Garry Kasparov

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