Who said the following:
“It is always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men.”
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Garry Kasparov
Tartakower of course
–SpencerF
Tal
And: “Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
Also: “I never defeated a healthy opponent.” (Regarding opponents who blame losses on illness.)
I read it in several variations attributed to players in the 19th century. Alexandre Deschapelles was quoted to have said (own translation): Freeing your game is best done by taking off some pieces of your opponent from the board.
Maybe this is not true. But surely it’s a well known joke in the old days of chess. You will find it ascribed to loads of masters, simply because it is true. 😉
I read it in several variations attributed to players in the 19th century. Alexandre Deschapelles was quoted to have said (own translation): Freeing your game is best done by taking off some pieces of your opponent from the board.
Maybe this is not true. But surely it’s a well known joke in the old days of chess. You will find it ascribed to loads of masters, simply because it is true. 😉
Tartakower
It sounds farmiliar to Pattons quote, “..no b*****d ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb b*****d die for his country.” General George S. Patton
It was Tartakower.