Fame, I have already. Now I need the money. - Wilhelm Steinitz

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I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.

Wilhelm Steinitz

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

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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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

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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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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

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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.

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