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

Aron Nimzowitsch

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Aron Nimzowitsch
Age: 48 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 7
Died: 1935
Died: March 16
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Aron Nimzowitsch
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Many men, many styles what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
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The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
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The threat is stronger than the execution.
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Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.
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How can I lose to such an idiot?
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The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
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First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
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If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?
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No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.
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When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.
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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.
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