Chess Quote by Siegbert Tarrasch

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

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game:…

— Michael Stean

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

— Lubomir Kavalek

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the…

— Dennis Ritchie

When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when…

— Ashot Nadanian

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

— Leonid Shamkovich

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

— Vasily Smyslov

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you…

— Siegbert Tarrasch