Quotes on Fischer

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn’t mean they are special.

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what_x000D_ Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'