Chess Zen

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“In the beginning of the game ignore the search for combinations, abstain from violent moves. Aim for small advantages, accumulate them, and only after having attained these ends search for the combination - and then with all the power of will and intellect, because then the combination must exist, however deeply hidden.”

-- Emanuel Lasker

[Source: Irving Chernev, "Logical Chess: Move by Move"]