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Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 3 |
One doesnt have to play well, its enough to play better than your opponent. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 4 |
He who fears an isolated queens pawn should give up chess. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 5 |
It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 6 |
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 7 |
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 matter of course. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 8 |
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 have something to worry about! |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 9 |
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the chess player. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 10 |
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. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 11 |
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 12 |
I look one move ahead... the best! |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 13 |
When you dont know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponents mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 14 |
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 have something to worry about! |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 15 |
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 matter of course. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 16 |
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 17 |
Weak points or holes in the opponents position must be occupied by pieces not pawns. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 18 |
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. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 19 |
White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 20 |
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 21 |
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 rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasnt feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game? |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 22 |
All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. (on the closed Ruy Lopez) |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 23 |
As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absence the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 24 |
Every move creates a weakness. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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| 25 |
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game. |
Siegbert Tarrasch |
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