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Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Wilhelm Steinitz
Age: 63 †
Born: 1837
Born: May 18
Died: 1900
Died: August 12
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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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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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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
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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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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
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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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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
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Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
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I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.
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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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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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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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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
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I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!
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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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