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Siegbert Tarrasch [ziːɡbɐt taraʃ] (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Chess, Happy, Like Love, Love, Men

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

Chess Game, Games, Opening, Player, Playing, Reputation

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?

Attack, Chess Game, Fifth, Game, Games, Winning

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

Chess, Combinations, Creatively, Exercise, Imagination, Magnificent

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

Bad, Idea, Ideas, Opponents, Wait, Waiting

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

Emphasized, Greatly, Important, Kings, Played, Roles

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

Center, Chess, Follows, Give, Giving Up, Strategy

When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one.

Good, Hands, Ifs, Move, Moving, Sit

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game

Chess Game, Endgame, Games, Middle, Placed

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

Become, Chess, Master, Masters

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.

Feeling, Like Love, Making, People, Pity, Sorry

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

Equipped, Extraordinary, Parent, Progress, World

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Game, Games, Play, Player, Players, Success

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, Chess Game, Games, Position, Terrible, Worry

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

Chess, Mistrust, Player, Psychology

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

Ideas, Mind, Play, Wait, Waiting

White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

Continuation, Failed, Lost, Moving, Thinking, White

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

Errors, White, Analysis, Point, Following, Head

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Belongs, Bishops, Chess, Future

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. 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, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Joke, Lying, Men, Peculiar, Pity, Writing

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