Savielly Tartakower - Quotations

Quotations

• "It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men."
• "An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard."
• "The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made."
• "The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
• "It is not enough to be a good player; you must also play well."
• "The move is there, but you must see it." (Horowitz 1971:137)
• "No game was ever won by resigning."
• "I never defeated a healthy opponent." This quotation refers to players who blame an illness, sometimes imaginary, for their loss.
• "Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do."
• "Moral victories do not count."
• "Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders."
• "The great master places a Knight on e5; checkmate follows by itself."
• "Every chessplayer should have a hobby"
• "A game of chess is divided into three stages: the opening, where you think you might be better; the middlegame, where you hope you might better; and the ending, where you know you have lost."