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 "Unknown29"] [Result "0-1"] [Annotator "David Hayes"] [BlackElo "0"] [FEN "r1q2k1r/pp2pp2/2P3p1/4B1n1/P7/5BPb/2QPPP2/R2R2K1 b - - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] [TimeControl "0"] [WhiteElo "0"] 1... Nxf3+ 2. exf3 Bg2 3. Bxh8 Qh3 4. cxb7 Qh1# 0-1