Horror A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror. - Wilhelm Steinitz
Thought I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. - Wilhelm Steinitz
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. - Wilhelm Steinitz
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. - Eric Allin Cornell
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. - Garry Kasparov