Basic principles Quote by Jose Raul Capablanca

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

— William Hartston

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the…

— Garry Kasparov

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out…

— Bobby Fischer

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as…

— Alexander Kotov

That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred…

— Alexander Alekhine

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

— Vasily Smyslov

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and…

— Garry Kasparov

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

— Richard Reti

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson

Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two…

— Henry Bird

“Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of “center of gravity” and the “decisive point”—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center of the…

— Henry Kissinger

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein