I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it … - Wilhelm Steinitz

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Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

Wilhelm Steinitz

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 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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