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"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
"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."
"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."
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
Explore more quotes by Boris Spassky
"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."
"When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive."
"For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
"When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally."
"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."
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