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Chess Quotes by Aron Nimzowitsch
- 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
- 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…
- Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'.…
- Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
- The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this…
- Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
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