Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz - Page 1

Chess is not for timid souls.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Soul
Souls
Timid
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Gymnastics
Intellectual
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The King is a fighting piece. Use it!
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Kings
Chess Pieces
Fighting
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Accepting
Chess
Sacrifice
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Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Famous
Money
Chess
Fame
Needs
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Sacrifice
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Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Monkeys
Watches
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I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Kings
Fighting
Play
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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Player
Strategy
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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
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Initiative
Player
Attack
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
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Artistic
Chess
Winning
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Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Demand
Reflection
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Artistic
Combination
Horror
Showy
Fills
However
Unsound
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Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Kings
Chess Game
Games
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I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Capable
Evil
Good Believe Game
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Defence
Playing Chess
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I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Hands
May
Mouths
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Defence
Life My Life Never
Played
French
My Life
Openings
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The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Kings
Queens
Games
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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Truth
Chess
Enemy
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Kings
Chess
Powerful
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When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Advantage
Obliged
Attack
Endangered
Otherwise
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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.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Inspiring
Capable
Chess
Evil
Good Believe Game
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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Believe
Games
Player
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I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Chess
Pieces
Writing
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I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.
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Might
Opponents
Personality
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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 have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!
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America
Mean
Winning
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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 the better position runs the risk of losing it.
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Running
Player
Risk
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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 up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Success
Games
Reflection
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I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Home
Country
Real
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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 only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
Eight
Player
Years
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