“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.” SometimesCommonSacrificeTheoryChessCombinationUnjustMagnitudeUntrue Book:The Art of Chess Combination Source: The Art of Chess Combination
“The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.” SacrificePossibilityChessRepeatsEtcDefence Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
