It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

Siegbert Tarrasch
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It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well
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If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself. ✨ Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). The Game of Chess, p.234, Courier Corporation
Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. ✨ Chess and Computers. Book by David N. L. Levy (p. 40), 1976.
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. ✨ The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy. Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn … ▶
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 ✨ The bright side of chess. Book by Irving Chernev (p. 114), 1952.

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