Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes

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

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