“The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.”

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Aron Nimzowitsch, as quoted in Nimzovich : The Hypermodern (1948) by Fred Reinfeld
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German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician 1862–1934

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