Quotes about Wilhelm Steinitz

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to...

#Wilhelm Steinitz

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

#Wilhelm Steinitz

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of...

#Wilhelm Steinitz

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during...

#Wilhelm Steinitz

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

#Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of...

#Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for timid souls.

#Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

#Wilhelm Steinitz

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

#Wilhelm Steinitz

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

#Wilhelm Steinitz