The story
German locates the virtue in the body: whoever can stay seated, wins. English borrowed the word whole; chess writers have leaned on sitzfleisch for decades when talent alone won't finish the job. The plain word underneath is stamina.
Sitzfleisch
ZITS-flysh[ˈzɪtsˌflaɪʃ]
Pronunciation: Jeuwre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonsthe ability to sit still until the job is done — sheer stamina
Closest in English: stamina, perseverance, persistence. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
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- Which language is it from?German
- Where would you hear it?In hour six of a chess match
- What does it literally say?Sit-flesh
- What does it mean?The patience to sit until the work is done