Chess Tactics Quotes

#1. We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.

Samuel Reshevsky

#2. Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

Reuben Fine

#3. No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Samuel Reshevsky

#4. Chess Tactics are important in the study.... I don't know about that but I know that this son of biatch beats me on chess games and on chess tactics puzzles he sucks!

Deyth Banger

#5. The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

Robert Frost

#6. When we wrap God's truth around us, it protects us by strengthening our core being.

Stormie O'martian

#7. In chess puzzles and tactics you see moves which in game is difficult to see mainly because of time and more often from the fast moves...

Deyth Banger

#8. When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece ... in order to win.

Lionel Suggs

#9. The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

Milan Kundera

#10. In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

Tyler Cowen

#11. Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Garry Kasparov

#12. Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.

Deyth Banger

#13. Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

#14. When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

Joan Crawford

#15. The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Aron Nimzowitsch

#16. The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

Gerald Abrahams

#17. It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

Rogers Hornsby

#18. The only thing I have of value is my heart. It's yours.

Sylvain Reynard

#19. I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

Jacki Weaver