I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

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.

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

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

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.