Middle Game Quotes
- In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game — Siegbert Tarrasch
- 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… — Aron Nimzowitsch
- Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely… — Mikhail Botvinnik
- Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers… — Harry Golombek
- A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game.… — Graham Nelson