Quotes by Siegbert Tarrasch - Page 1

Every move creates a weakness.
Siegbert Tarrasch / Chess Player
Chess
Moving
Weakness
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I look one move ahead... the best!
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Chess
Looks
Moving
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The future belongs to he who has the bishops.
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Bishops
Chess
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Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.
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Chess Game
Games
Middle
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He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.
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Queens
Chess Game
Giving Up
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White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.
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Chess
Pawns
White
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Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
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Men
Chess
Like Love
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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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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
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Chess
Player
Psychology
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Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.
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Chess
Masters
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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
Opponents
Play
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Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
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Behinds
Pawns
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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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Hands
Ifs
Moving
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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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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
Opponents
Waiting
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All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.
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Bishops
Play
Principles
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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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Chess
Littles
Moving
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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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Chess
Giving Up
Strategy
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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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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
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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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Examination
Paper
Questions And Answers
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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
Games
Player
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... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
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Imagination
Chess
Exercise
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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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Chess
Intellectual
Pleasure
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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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Analysis
Errors
White
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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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Ideas
Play
Waiting
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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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Chess Game
Games
Player
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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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Men
Like Love
Lying
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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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Men
Chess
Feelings
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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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Chess Game
Games
Worry
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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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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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Giving
Squares
Support
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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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Tactics
Thorough Understanding
Typical
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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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Like Love
People
Sorry
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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
Feelings
Like Love
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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
Play
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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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Chess Game
Games
Winning
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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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Men
Lying
Writing
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