Savielly Tartakower Quotes

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• Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

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  Knowing, Tactics, Strategy

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• The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

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  Mistake, Chess, Lasts

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• No one ever won a game by resigning.

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  Inspirational, Sports, Winning

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• A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

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  Believe, Games, Chess Game

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• I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

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  Class, People, Affirmation

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• Some part of a mistake is always correct

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  Mistake, Chess

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• The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

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  Essentials, Chess, Firsts

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• The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

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  Mistake, Waiting, Chess

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• The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

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  Success, Player, Battle

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• The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

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  Needs, Chess, Strategy

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• To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

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  Sacrifice, Games, Chess Game

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• Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

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  Reputation, Good Enough, Opening

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• Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

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  Sleep, Knights, Chess

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• A game is always won through a mistake.

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  Mistake, Games, Chess

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• A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

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  Queens, Heart, Sacrifice

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• I never defeated a healthy opponent.

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  Healthy, Opponents, Defeated

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• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

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  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

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• It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

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  Common Sense, Variation, Chess

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• It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

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  Sacrifice, Men, Chess Game

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• As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.

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  Dark, Light, Self

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• All Chess players should have a hobby

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  Player, Should Have, Hobbies

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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

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  Chess, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

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  Moving, Alchemist, Stronger

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• Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

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  Player, Choices, Psychology

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• Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

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  Successful, Games, Black

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