Tactics(Chess) • The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. - Tartakover • No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King. - Koblentz • The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Tartakover • A man surprised is half beaten. - Proverb • Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann • There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. - Tal • The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary. - Nimzovich • The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld • The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind. - Emanuel Lasker • Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard. - Fine • If the student forces himself to examine all moves that smite, however absurd they may look at first glance, he is on the way to becoming a master of tactics. - Purdy • The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. - Gerald Abrahams • Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles. - Purdy • The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. - Reti • In the perfect chess combination as in a first-rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment. - Yates and Winter • A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course. - Tarrasch • Its always better to sacrifice your opponents men. - Tartakover
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