Adverse Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz Download Open image “Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game” — Wilhelm Steinitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adverse Capture Chess Chess game Firsts Games Kings Objects Strategy Ultimate
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
“There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where the ladder was. It was the king descending. I could see… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire; or to challenge the fates for another throw - a better throw -… — Amy Hennig Copy Share Image
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
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 my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy,… — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
