Use Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

— Wilhelm Steinitz

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz