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Chess Quotes by Siegbert Tarrasch
- Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
- I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess.
- Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.
- Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really…
- Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
- Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game
- One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
- He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess
- It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well
- A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a…
- Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
- What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
- One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
- I look one move ahead... the best!
- When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be…
- First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
- Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
- Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head
- White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself
- I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of…
- AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -…
- Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
- As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to…
- The future belongs to he who has the bishops.
- ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
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