Wilhelm Steinitz Player Quotations

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

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

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.

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.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack