Siegbert Tarrasch Quotes
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When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.
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White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.
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Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
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In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.
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First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
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I look one move ahead... the best!
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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 wrong
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I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
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It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.
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Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.
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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
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White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself
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Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
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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
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One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
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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
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I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.
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I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.
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Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
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Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
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If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.
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Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago
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It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well
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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 me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.
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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!
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Every move creates a weakness.
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Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
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One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
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When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one.
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I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.
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