Jonas’s Reviews > Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 > Status Update

"After losing the final, 19th game [to Lasker], Steinitz got up with difficulty from his chair, leaning on his stick, and pronouncedd three 'hurrahs' for the new 'world chess king' and promptly... settled down to play cards with some friends."

'Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficuilt, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.' Steinitz