Wilhelm Steinitz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Gymnastics #Intellectual #Chess
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Winning #Chess #Artistic
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Sacrifice #Chess #Accepting
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Player #Chess #Initiative
The King is a fighting piece. Use it!
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Kings #Fighting #Use
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Kings #Powerful #Pieces
The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Queens #Kings #Games
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Enemy #Guides #Critics
Chess is not for timid souls.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Soul #Chess
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Money #Needs #Fame
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.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Running #Player #Risk
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Reflection #Zealous #Research
Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Watches #Monkeys
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Chess #Opening #Defence
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Kings #Games #Chess
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Believe #Player #Games
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

#Success #Reflection #Games

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