Siegbert Tarrasch Quotes - Page 2

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

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

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

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

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

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

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.

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.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

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

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.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.