Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes

• Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Truth, Enemy, Chess

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• Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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  Gymnastics, Intellectual, Chess

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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.

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  Success, Reflection, Games

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• The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

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  Kings, Fighting, Chess Pieces

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• Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

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  Player, Chess, Strategy

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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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• 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.

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  Player, Years, Eight

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• Nunca en mi vida he jugado la Defensa Francesa, que es la más aburrida de todas las aperturas.

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  Playing Chess, Chess, Defence

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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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  Personality, Opponents, Might

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• Una victoria por una combinación poco sólida, por muy vistosa que sea, me llena de horror artístico

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  Winning, Chess, Artistic

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• I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!

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  Kings, Fighting, Play

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• Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

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  Money, Needs, Chess

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• A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

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  Sacrifice, Chess, Accepting

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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.

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  Writing, Pieces, 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.

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  Hands, May, Mouths

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• El ajedrez no es para almas tímidas.

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  Soul, Chess

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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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  Kings, Powerful, Chess

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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.

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  Believe, Player, Games

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• Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

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  Kings, Games, Chess Game

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

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  Reflection, Demand, Chess

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• Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

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  Watches, Monkeys, Chess

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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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  Mean, Winning, America

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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.

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  Kings, Queens, Games

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• Me concederé el honor de inscribirme como solicitante de la ciudadanía estadounidense que, según la ley, sólo puedo obtener tras cinco años de residencia en este país. Y no cederé ante ninguno de mis futuros compatriotas en patriotismo. Considero que América es ahora mi verdadero hogar.

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  Country, Real, Home

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