Siegbert Tarrasch
"It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king."
Siegbert Tarrasch
"When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one."
Siegbert Tarrasch
"When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad."
Siegbert Tarrasch
"First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game"
Siegbert Tarrasch
"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
"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
"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
"... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations."
Siegbert Tarrasch
"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
"One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat"
Siegbert Tarrasch
"White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself"
Siegbert Tarrasch
"Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago"
Siegbert Tarrasch
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