Chess Beginner Strategy Quotes

A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game ~ Richard Reti

Every Chess master was once a beginner ~ Irving Chernev

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more. ~ Dumitru Tepeneag

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable. ~ Fred Couples

Most people delay an activity because they are waiting for the right moment, for the moment when the situation will be ripe or they will possess the perfect strategy for accomplishing something…in other word...NEVER. ~ Sasha Tenodi

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money. ~ Joe Klein

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself. ~ Savielly Tartakower

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. ~ Stephen Colbert

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis. ~ Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position ~ Efim Geller

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy. ~ William Nordhaus

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again. ~ Andre Kertesz

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy. ~ Ryan Seacrest

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms. ~ Randall Munroe

Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument. ~ Terry O'Reilly

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. ~ Rich Lowry

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4. ~ Anatoly Karpov

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

What is fatah? We can easily see and resist the effects of jihad in militant terrorism, but we have trouble seeing and resisting the more subtle strategy that the Muslims call fatah. Fatah is infiltration, moving into a country in numbers large enough to affect the culture. It means taking advantage of tolerant laws and accommodative policies to insert the influence of Islam. In places where a military invasion will not succeed, the slow, systematic, and unrelenting methods of fatah are conquering whole nations. An illustration is: A demographic revolution is taking place today in France. Some experts are projecting that by the year 2040, 80 percent of the population of France will be Muslim. At that point the Muslim majority will control commerce, industry, education, and religion. They will also control the government, as well, and occupy all the key positions in the French Parliament. And a Muslim will be president.19 ~ David Jeremiah

Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that someone else whispers the moves as they play... ~ Catherine Linka

But when he was with Chess he wasn't the bad guy no more. He was the one keeping her safe, making her smile. He still wasn't good enough for her, but he were better than he'd ever been. That mattered. ~ Stacia Kane

Survival strategy. If you're not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee's like bait for the beasts. ~ Rachel Vincent

In chess there is a world of intellectual values, ~ Gerald Abrahams

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. ~ Terence McKenna

There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use. ~ Viswanathan Anand

The startup's goal is to find a profitable customer acquisition strategy by spending small amounts of money in a lot of them, measuring results, and then narrowing down the best channels, while performing PDCA for continuous improvement. ~ Francisco S. Homem De Mello

The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no military thinking in a world that devoted itself to military action. With little thought of strategy, no study of the theory of war or of planned objective, war's glorious art may have been glorious, but with individual exceptions, it was more or less mindless. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. ~ Sun Tzu

Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective. ~ Gretchen Rubin

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces. ~ Adrienne Shelly

Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You ~ Claire North

What matters about creating alignment around a strategy is not the volume of communication, but its quality and precision. ~ Stephen Bungay

Hey, Chess, I know I've never dated a woman, but the thought of you leaving fills me with fucking dread. Because I don't want to be your friend anymore. I just want to be yours. ~ Kristen Callihan