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Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis, but now he makes a fatal error - he begins to use his own head.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

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Source: Concerning a World Chess Championship match, as quoted by William Ewart Napier in "The Bright Side of Chess" (1952) by Irving Chernev, p. 114
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