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Chess Quotes by Savielly Tartakower
- The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
- Some part of a mistake is always correct
- The mistakes are there, waiting to be made
- It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
- To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game
- A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an…
- The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing
- All Chess players should have a hobby
- Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender…
- A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.
- Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it…
- Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.
- Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out'…
- A game is always won through a mistake.
- Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.
- It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
- In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
- A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
- The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.
- The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.
- It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
- Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
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