Taken from Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savielly_TartakowerMore quotes from Tartakower:
Tartakower has made some comments about chess, some of which are cynical:
(😍Comments added by Bishop1964😍)
"It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men."
"An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard."
"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." (😍Better I make them before anybody else must make them😍)
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
"The move is there, but you must see it." (Horowitz 1971:137) (😍I am trying so hard to find it😍)
"No game was ever won by resigning."
"I never defeated a healthy opponent." (This quotation refers to players who blame an illness, sometimes imaginary, for their loss.) (😍This is a good one.😍)
"Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do."
"Moral victories do not count."
"Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders." (😍This could have been my quote😍)
"The great master places a knight on e5; checkmate follows by itself."
"A master can sometimes play badly, a fan never!" (😍Maybe that is the reason why I like "kiebitzing"😍)
"A match demonstrates less than a tournament. But a tournament demonstrates nothing at all."
"Chess is a struggle against one's own errors."
"Every chessplayer should have a hobby." (😍Luckily I have already one.😍)
"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."
"As long as an opening is reputed to be weak it can be played."
"Stalemate is the tragicomedy of chess."