Aron Nimzowitsch Quotes About Chess

• The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Keys, Police, Criminals

• It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Games, Chess, Well Known

• Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Chess, Faces

• In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Stars, Actors

• The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Pawns, Casts

• The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Inspirational, Beauty, Sports

  "Nimzovich the Hypermodern". Book by Fred Reinfeld, 1948.

• First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Next, Firsts, Chess

• Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Winning, Men, Expression

• No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Pawns, Opening

• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Land, Soldier, Enemy

• The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Occupation, Chess, Operations

• The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess Game, Chess Pieces, Tactics

• The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Fighting, Hands

• When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Running, Moving, Thinking

• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Progress

• The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Night, Giving, Enemy

• Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Important, Pieces, Chess

• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

• Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Talent, Young

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