
Top 35 Tartakower Chess Quotes
#1. We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.
Rachel Held Evans
#2. A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
Savielly Tartakower
#3. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#4. It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
Savielly Tartakower
#5. Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?
Frances Noyes Hart
#11. If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.
Evander Holyfield
#12. Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
Savielly Tartakower
#13. The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.
Seneca.
#15. While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
Christopher Marlowe
#18. Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.
Savielly Tartakower
#19. 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
#20. It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
Savielly Tartakower
#21. 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
#22. As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can't live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to 'work.' That's a childish instinct, to say, 'Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now'.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#23. The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing
Savielly Tartakower
#24. Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.
Savielly Tartakower
#25. Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
V.S. Pritchett
#26. A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.
Savielly Tartakower
#28. 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
#29. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
Ha-Joon Chang
#30. What I wanted was to blow a hole in the sky, explode a star, let the burning embers scorch me and everything they touched.
Amy Garvey
#33. In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
Savielly Tartakower
#35. I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.
Ali Larter
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