Quotes About Chess Strategy

#1. While reading Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on "popular highlights" to see what passages other readers had found interesting - and wound up becoming fascinated by a section on chess strategy I'd only lightly skimmed myself.

Clive Thompson

#2. It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#3. Maybe I have said it, maybe I haven't chess isn't about math, it's about strategy. If you know math this doesn't make you good in chess, you must have strategy to win.

Deyth Banger

#4. Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

Alexander Alekhine

#5. 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

#6. A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Madeleine Albright

#7. 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

#8. If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

Martin Sheen

#9. Once again, I found myself on the edge looking down, wondering when I'd get so close that I'd fall. Or maybe I'd just jump.

A.L. Jackson

#10. Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

Wladimir Klitschko

#11. During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Alexander Alekhine

#12. Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Vitali Klitschko

#13. Check your moves well, because it can
cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

Deyth Banger

#14. People are never perfect, but love can be.

Tom Robbins

#15. He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

James Lovelock

#17. Chess would teach me strategy, fencing would teach me human nature and self-preservation, and dancing would teach me my body. All necessary for a well-rounded person.

Penelope Douglas

#18. The move is there, but you must see it.

Savielly Tartakower

#19. In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

Larry Evans

#20. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G.H. Hardy

#21. An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

Joseph Addison

#22. I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Aleksandar Hemon

#23. The real, by which I mean God, continues to remain unfathomable.

Czeslaw Milosz

#24. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Crystal Woods

#25. Motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

Steven Johnson

#27. He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!

David Sedaris

#28. Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

Jeffery Deaver

#29. All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

#30. I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Jason Marsden

#31. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Garry Kasparov

#32. Some patients do seem to have some kind of post-infection meltdown. They don't still have an infection any more in any sense that we understand infection. But someone is going to have to explain these patients to me someday.

Mark Crislip

#33. Attack! Always Attack!

Adolf Anderssen

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

Lionel Suggs

#35. It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Alexander Kotov

#36. To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

Emanuel Lasker

#37. Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!

Deyth Banger

#38. The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#39. Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth, in which banquets last for ever, and roads lead everywhere, where all things are under the exuberant leadership of faith, hope, and charity.

G.K. Chesterton

#40. In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Lennox Lewis