Siegbert Tarrasch Quotes

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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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  Men, Like Love, Feelings

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1960). “Best Games of Chess”, Dover Publications

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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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  Ideas, Waiting, Opponents

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• It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

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  Success, Player, Playing Chess

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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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  Moving, Hands, Ifs

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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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  Kings, Important, Roles

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. 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 men happy.

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  Lying, Writing, Men

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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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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  Success, Player, Games

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• Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

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  Men, Like Love, Chess

  The Game of Chess ch. 9 (1931)

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• He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

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  Queens, Giving Up, Chess Game

  "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.

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• Every move creates a weakness.

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  Moving, Weakness, Chess

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• One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

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  Success, Play, Opponents

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• 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 wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

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  Winning, Games, Chess Game

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• The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

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  Bishops, Chess

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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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  White, Errors, Analysis

  "The bright side of chess". Book by Irving Chernev (p. 114), 1952.

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• Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

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  Player, Psychology, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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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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  Games, Chess Game, Worry

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• Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.

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  Pawns, Behinds

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• Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

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  Games, Chess Game, Middle

  "Cunning Exiles : Studies of Modern Prose Writers". Book by Don Anderson, Stephen Thomas Knight (p. 41), 1974.

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• Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

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  Chess Pieces, Opponents, Pawns

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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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  Parent, Progress, World

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• I look one move ahead... the best!

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  Moving, Chess, Looks

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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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  Moving, Thinking, White

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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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  Giving Up, Chess, Strategy

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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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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  Kings, Cat, Games

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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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  Player, Games, Chess Game

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