Savielly Tartakower Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• No one ever won a game by resigning.

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  Inspirational, Sports, Winning

• The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

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  Success, Player, Battle

• A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

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  Queens, Heart, Sacrifice

• The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

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  Mistake, Waiting, Chess

• Some part of a mistake is always correct

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  Mistake, Chess

• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

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  Chess, Fairy Tale, Tales

• The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

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  Needs, Chess, Strategy

• It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

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  Sacrifice, Men, Chess Game

• A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

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  Believe, Games, Chess Game

• All Chess players should have a hobby

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  Player, Should Have, Hobbies

• Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

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  Sleep, Knights, Chess

• Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

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  Successful, Games, Black

• The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

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  Mistake, Chess, Lasts

• To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

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  Sacrifice, Games, Chess Game

• It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

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  Learning, Together, Chess

• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

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  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

• A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

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  Moving, Chess, Weak

• The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

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  Essentials, Chess, Firsts

• Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

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  Games, Chess, Sometimes

• Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

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  Wise, Variation, Chess

• Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

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  Moving, Alchemist, Stronger

• It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

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  Common Sense, Variation, Chess

• Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

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  Chess, Surprise, Theory

• A game is always won through a mistake.

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  Mistake, Games, Chess

• An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

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  Chess, Pawns, Spread

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