Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
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Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
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The King is a fighting piece. Use it!
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Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
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Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
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Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
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Chess is not for timid souls.
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The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with…
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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 up…
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When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
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I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
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