Quotes from Savielly Tartakower

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

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!

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Some part of a mistake is always correct.

The move is there, but you must see it.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.