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Quotes About Strategy

The rook is my favorite piece.' she said. 'It's the one you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eyes on the queen, and the knight and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But is the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig
A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
Nora pushed a pawn forward two spaces.
~ Matt Haig
right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.
~ Matt Haig
There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So
~ Matt Haig
At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.
~ Matt Haig
you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.
~ Matt Haig
Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting.
~ Matt Haig
And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
There are more possible ways to play a game og chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything.
~ Matt Haig
A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.
~ Matt Haig
There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.
~ Matt Haig
And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.
~ Matt Haig
remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And
~ Matt Haig
You should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.
~ Matt Haig
And the thing you need to realise is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game.
~ Matt Haig
Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's—that's usually the way this business works.
~ Matt Taibbi
Chase's was a junkie's banking strategy, shooting speed in the morning and spending all day foraging for the cash to dope down at night, an endless quest to chase the debt dragon.
~ Matt Taibbi
Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street.
~ Matt Taibbi
As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.
~ Matt Taibbi
Instead of looking at humans as potential threats, the Silent Striders look upon them as mere pawns in a much bigger game, much like themselves.
~ Matt Wagner