Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes About Chess

• 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, Strategy

• The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Fighting, Chess Pieces

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

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Truth, Enemy, Chess

• The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Queens, Games

• In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Powerful, Chess

• 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 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

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

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Games, Chess Game

• I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Playing Chess, Chess, Defence

• 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

• Chess is not for timid souls.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Soul, Chess

• Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Watches, Monkeys, Chess

• 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

  Writing, Pieces, Chess

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

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Reflection, Demand, Chess

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

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Money, Needs, Chess

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