Siegbert Tarrasch Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Kings, Important, Roles

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

• 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.

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

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  Success, Player, Playing Chess

• 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

• 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

• The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

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  Bishops, Chess

• 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

• 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.

• If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Giving Up, Chess, Strategy

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

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

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  Success, Play, Opponents

• 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)

• 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

• Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

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  Intellectual, Chess, Pleasure

• Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

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  Chess, Masters

  "Chess and Computers". Book by David N. L. Levy (p. 40), 1976.

• 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

• ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

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  Exercise, Imagination, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.97, Courier Corporation

• 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

• 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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  Play, Ideas, Waiting

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

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  Chess Pieces, Opponents, Pawns

• 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.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Men, Feelings, Chess

  "Best Games of Chess".

• 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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  Thorough Understanding, Typical, Tactics

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.173, Courier Corporation

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Littles, Chess

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