Bites Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz

“I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.”

Wilhelm Steinitz

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The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

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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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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

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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…

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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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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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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…

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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

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Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

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Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

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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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I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I…

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I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you…

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The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it…

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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I…

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“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.”

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Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only…

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