I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

Different people feel differently about resigning

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.