If you control and/or occupy the center of a chess board, then you can move to any place of the board faster than your opponent. The board's center is the high ground of a chess battle.
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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Unknown"]
[Black "Unknown148"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "8/8/8/pp1k4/2p5/PPPK4/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
1. bxc4+ bxc4+ 2. Ke3 Ke5 3. a4 Kd5 4. Kf4 Kc6 5. Ke5 Kc5 6. Ke4 Kc6 7. Kd4 Kd6 8. Kxc4 Kc6 9. Kd4 Kd6 10. c4 Kc6 11. c5 Kb7 12. Kd5 Kc7 13. c6 Kc8 14. Kc5 Kc7 15. Kb5 Kd6 16. Kb6 Kd5 17. c7 Kc4 18. c8=Q+ { White wins with a large
material advantage. } 1-0