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 "Unknown116"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "8/p1pq3k/2pbnpp1/3p3p/3P1B2/P5QP/1PP1NPP1/6K1 b - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
1... Nxf4 2. Nxf4 Qf5 ( { Black can try: } 2... g5 3. Nxh5 ( 3. Qd3+ f5 4. Nxh5 Qe6 5. Kf1 Kh6 6. Ng3 Bxg3 7. Qxg3 f4 8. Qf3 { White wins with a large
material advantage. } ) 3... Qe6 ( 3... Bxg3 4. Nxf6+ Kg6 5. Nxd7 Bf4 6. g3 Bc1 7. Ne5+ Kf5 8. g4+ Ke4 9. Nd3 Bd2 10. Nc5+ Kf3 11. Kf1 { White has a winning
advantage. } ) 4. Qd3+ Kh6 5. Kf1 f5 6. Ng3 Bxg3 7. Qxg3 Qe4 { White wins with
a large material advantage. } ) 3. Qxg6+ Qxg6 4. Nxg6 Kxg6 { Black wins with a
large material advantage. } 1-0