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

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Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.234, Courier Corporation

Siegbert Tarrasch

#Giving Up Quotes #Giving Quotes #Defenders Quotes

“I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.”
“It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.”
“High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.”
“The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.”
“Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”
“I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.”
“I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”
“I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 29, 2003.

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