Tactics flow from a superior position.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

- Fischer

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Aron Nimzowitsch:

The threat is stronger than the execution.

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First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy. [talking about an isolated pawn I believe]

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The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

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The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

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Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

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The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard [I think he means, when you have the isolated pawn]

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Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

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It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

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Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect. ["Overprotection" - a term from "My System" - can be taught even at Wikipedia]

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A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

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No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.

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The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

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The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

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The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super' [I think he means 'extra'], in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

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