"Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?"
— Bobby Fischer

January 1, 1970

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in the only meeting with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, responding to the latter advocating "step by step" changes mindful of the heritage of chess (between September 1, 1992 and 2002) Gligorić (2002), p. 71.