Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Chess is not dominoes

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the game, then you've given them brain food and you've given them a skill that can last them a lifetime.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.