Siegbert Tarrasch Quotes

To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game.

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

In tournaments it is not enough to be a connoisseur of chess; one must also play well.

Chess is 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 for the man who has no knowledge of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

The rooks belong behind passed pawns, behind their own in order to support their advance, behind the enemy's in order to impede their advance.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player.

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

Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess.

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.