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Chess Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz
- 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!
- Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
- 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…
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