Siegbert Tarrasch Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Player, Games, Chess Game

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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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  Intellectual, Chess, Pleasure

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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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  Squares, Giving, Support

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• I look one move ahead... the best!

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  Moving, Chess, Looks

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• 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.

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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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  Questions And Answers, Paper, Examination

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• ... 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

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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, Feelings, Chess

  "Best Games of Chess".

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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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  Play, Ideas, Waiting

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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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  Thorough Understanding, Typical, Tactics

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

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• White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

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  White, Chess, Pawns

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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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  Sorry, Like Love, People

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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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  Lying, Men, Like Love

  The Game of Chess ch. 9 (1931)

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