Savielly Tartakower famous quotes

No one ever won a game by resigning.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Sports #Games

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Success #Player #Battle

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Knowing #Tactics #Strategy

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Queens #Heart #Sacrifice

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Mistake #Waiting #Chess

Some part of a mistake is always correct
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Mistake #Chess

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Chess #Fairy Tale #Tales

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Needs #Chess #Strategist

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Moving #Alchemist #Stronger

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Player #Choices #Psychology

I never defeated a healthy opponent.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Healthy #Opponents #Defeated

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Pawns #Spread #Isolated

All Chess players should have a hobby
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Player #Chess #Hobbies

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Reputation #Enough #Good Enough

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Games #Pieces #Chess

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Chess #Surprise #Theory

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Common Sense #Chess #Variation

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Class #People

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Firsts #Essentials #Chess

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Mistake #Chess #Lasts

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Mistake #Luck #Opponents

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Learning #Together #Chess

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Believe #Games #Three

A game is always won through a mistake.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Mistake #Games #Chess

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Wise #Variation #Chess

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Games #Chess #Sometimes

Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Successful #Games #Black

A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Moving #Chess #Weak

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Sacrifice #Men #Opponents

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Sleep #Knights #Chess