TEMPO

An Italian word meaning time. The unit of time expressed in terms of a move. A gain of time (move) during the game in that a player has gain or loss tempi. Tarrasch called it: “the time value for a move”.

A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose. Savielly Tartakower
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Tartakower
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons. Veselin Topalov
2014
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz

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