Appreciate Quote by William Hartston

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

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

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

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked…

— Garry Kasparov

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin