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"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."
"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."
Explore more quotes by Boris Spassky
"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."
"I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else."
"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game."
"When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on."
"In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you."
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