There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.