Aron Nimzowitsch Quotes

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• The beauty of a move lies not in it's appearance but in the thought behind it.
• How can I lose to such an idiot?
• Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!
• The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
• The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
• The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
• Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently…
• Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot…
• How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in…
• How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then,…
• The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super',…
• It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end…
• In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.
• The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.
• The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.
• No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.
• First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
• Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves…
• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment…
• When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running…

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