real quote??

journalist: "Which do you prefer chess or sex?"

Spassky: "It depends on the position"

I read this somewhere... is this a real quote :P

At the risk of mortally offending you (some losers and lamebrains have taken this link as a personal insult in answer to their questions, which is not the intention here - nor was it previously in answer to other peoples questions)

www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html

You'll apparently need to come up with the interview this quote occured in to verify it's veracity

Spassky has also been quoted as explaining the failure of his 1st match thusly We were like opposite-color Bishops. I like the quote, so I don't care whether he really said it or not

i hope it's real, but i can't find it, also what is that site linked got to do with anything?

I've seen that quote a few times too, dunno if it's real.

maybe they were insulted because you called them lamebrains XD

yeah, loser probably didn't help either

yeah what he said

NO I didn't call ANYONE "lamebrain" or "loser" or anything else - I just posted the link to searching FAQs and in several cases got really nasty replies like they were tremendously insulted anyone would dare suggest that they try looking up something themself

It's got to do with using search engines to look up your own answers.

Wikiquote lists the quote as unsourced, so I guess no one really knows if BS actually said it or not.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky

Or he could have referred you to Michael Crichton's "Rising Sun", my cultural touchstone for all things Japanese.

Wrong, it's got to do with wanting me to register for something that I dont want to register for. Do you get referal bonuses or something there? Seems a little suspicious to me that you are so keen on a site that seems a little dodgy to say the least.

This is a chess site, with chess related forums, it seems like a really obvious place to ask, talk, speculate about chess related stuff.

I will not register at that site, I will continue to ask chess related questions here.

"Don't listen to quotes on the internet, they are fake" -Some guy from the 1500s.

I think I've lost the plot of this thread. Not sure I ever really had it. For what it's worth, I was trying to provide useful information. Not sure if I did that. Seems like someone is ticked off with someone.

It sounds like you're trying to offend people

yeah, boom