Chess Quote by Siegbert Tarrasch Download Open image “Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game” — Siegbert Tarrasch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Chess game Endgame Games God Middle
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives. — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles? — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is… — Gerard Jones Copy Share Image
Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
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… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
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