Some Famous Sayings of Aaron Nimzowitsch
About the Centre
About Blockading
About Pawns
About Type Positions
Raoul José
Capablanca, World Champion 1921-27
About Positional Play
Positional moves more often than not are neither threats nor defense moves.
There is a widespread
belief that you can accumulate small advantages that may be converted into a
win.
This belief is strongly overestimated. But there is something called
"to transform advantages", meaning that
you refrain from one thing to get another.
Learn to distinguish between true and false freeing moves. (Blackburne-Nimzowitsch, Petrograd 1914)
There is no such thing as an absolute freeing move.
Dynamics triumphs over matter.
In a sound position there are at least two alternatives that are "the only move".
There is a difference between sleeping after the work has been well done and sleeping during the work itself. (p.54)
About Over-Zealous Activism etc.
A historical metaphor:
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