Quotes by Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

Bishops

Play

Principles

Always put the rook behind the pawn…. Except when it is incorrect to do so.

Behinds

Pawns

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king’s bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

Cat

Games

Kings

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!

Chess Game

Games

Worry

Every move creates a weakness.

Chess

Moving

Weakness

He who fears an isolated Queen’s Pawn should give up Chess.

Chess Game

Giving Up

Queens

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

Examination

Paper

Questions And Answers

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn’t feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

Chess Game

Games

Winning

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.

Like Love

People

Sorry

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.

Chess

Feelings

Men

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Cat

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Chess Game

Chess Pieces

Errors

Examination

Feelings

Games

Giving

Giving Up

Hands

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Intellectual

Kings

Like Love

Littles

Looks

Men

Moving

Opponents

Paper

Pawns

People

Play

Pleasure

Principles

Queens

Questions And Answers

Roles

Sorry

Squares

Strategy

Success

Support

Waiting

Weakness

White

Winning

Worry

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Quotes by Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

Always put the rook behind the pawn…. Except when it is incorrect to do so.

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king’s bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

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!

Every move creates a weakness.

He who fears an isolated Queen’s Pawn should give up Chess.

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn’t feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

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.

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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