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 "Unknown131"] [Result "1-0"] [Annotator "David Hayes"] [BlackElo "0"] [FEN "3r2k1/5p1p/bqnNp1p1/p1n5/2P1P3/P1Q1B3/1P2BPPP/6K1 w - - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] [TimeControl "0"] [WhiteElo "0"] 1. Qf6 Rxd6 2. Bh6 Nxe4 3. Qg7# 1-0