Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes (10 Quotes)
- When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- Chess is not for timid souls.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- 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 is intellectual gymnastics.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
- Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
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