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 "Unknown150"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "8/5p2/4p3/4Pk1p/5P2/6KP/8/8 b - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
1... Ke4 ( { Black can try: } 1... h4+ 2. Kf3 Kg6 3. Kg4 f5+ 4. Kxh4 Kh6 5. Kg3 Kg6 6. h4 Kh5 7. Kh3 Kg6 8. Kg3 Kh5 9. Kh3 Kg6 { Draw by repetition of
position. } ) 2. Kh4 Kxf4 3. Kxh5 Kxe5 4. Kg5 f5 5. h4 Kd6 ( 5... f4 6. h5 f3 7. h6 f2 8. h7 f1=Q 9. h8=Q+ { With a likely draw. } ) 6. Kf4 ( { White dare not
try: } 6. Kg6 Ke7 7. Kg7 f4 8. h5 f3 9. h6 f2 10. h7 f1=Q 11. h8=Q Qg2+ 12. Kh7 Kf7 13. Qe5 Qh3+ 14. Qh5+ Qxh5# ) 6... Ke7 7. Kg5 Kf7 8. h5 Kg8 9. Kf4 Kh7 10. Kg5 Kg7 11. h6+ Kh7 12. Kh5 e5 13. Kg5 e4 14. Kf4 Kxh6 { Black wins with a
large material advantage. } 0-1