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! Siegbert Tarrasch More Quotes by Siegbert Tarrasch More Quotes From Siegbert Tarrasch 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 Siegbert Tarrasch chess-game player games All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. Siegbert Tarrasch bishops principles play Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. Siegbert Tarrasch pleasure intellectual chess 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 chess feelings men Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. Siegbert Tarrasch masters chess Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game. Siegbert Tarrasch chess-game middle games Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player Siegbert Tarrasch psychology player chess Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. Siegbert Tarrasch like-love men lying ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. Siegbert Tarrasch imagination exercise chess 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. Siegbert Tarrasch like-love sorry people 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 Siegbert Tarrasch analysis errors white One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat Siegbert Tarrasch chess littles moving White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself Siegbert Tarrasch white moving thinking White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn. Siegbert Tarrasch pawns white chess I look one move ahead... the best! Siegbert Tarrasch chess looks moving Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago Siegbert Tarrasch examination questions-and-answers paper 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 Siegbert Tarrasch waiting play ideas
