Wilhelm Steinitz

“Only a strong player knows how weakly he plays.”

“He who has the advantage should attack, otherwise he will be in danger of losing it.”

“The combination of a sound plan with an attack is the basis of a good game.”

“First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game.”

“The King is a fighting piece. Use it!”

“Chess is not for timid souls.”

“A win by an unsound combination, however brilliant, should be chastised.”

“I may be a chess-player, but I am also a poet.”

“The position of a Pawn, in consequence of its limited power of action, is perhaps more difficult to be correctly judged than that of any other piece.”

“Place the contents of the chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of my opponent.”