Siegbert Tarrasch

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center,…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess

— Siegbert Tarrasch

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

— Siegbert Tarrasch

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

— Siegbert Tarrasch

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Every move creates a weakness.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

— Siegbert Tarrasch