Quotes About Strategy

Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?

All's fair in love and war--and black ops.

There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.

I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.

I used to play chess with him in the park," I said. "Every morning.

He saw dozens of permutations in how things could play out, planned for every eventuality, strategized for each and every possible future.

Is this all just a game to you?" "Everything's game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

By the time I'm done," I said, "that picture will win you this election." ... There was a long moment of silence, and then Emilia tossed her ponytail over her shoulders. "There's no way you're that good." I smiled. "Try me.

Well then, Heiress." Jameson stepped forward. Standing directly to my side, he brought his lips down to my ear and whispered, "Game on.

To my surprise, Brooke smiled, and I realized that even though two of the other teams had managed to bug their marks' cell phones, the information Tara and I had received might just prove it self to be even more useful. Take that Chloe!

but at the end of the day, even if you thought that you'd manipulated our grandfather into this, I guarantee that he'd be the one manipulating you.

I take it Asher called you?" "What's your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going?

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

Ik zag nu al hoe het zou aflopen. 'Over drie zetten zet u me schaakmat.' ... 'Maar gelukkig,' zei ik, terwijl ik mijn eigen koningin van het bord plukte, 'zet ik u in twee zetten schaakmat.

Tegen de tijd dat ik klaar ben, heb je het aan die foto te danken dat je de verkiezingen wint.' ... Het bleef even stil. Daarna zwaaide Emilia haar lange paardenstaart over haar schouder. 'Zo goed ben je nou ook weer niet.' Ik glimlachte naar haar. 'Moet jij eens opletten.

Wat is onze regel over smerige spelletjes ook alweer? - Nash Smerige spelletjes bestaan niet, zolang je maar wint. - Avery

Ik had niet zomaar een plan. Ik had Een Plan.

Well then, Heiress. Game on.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

When you see a good move, look for a better one

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principle characteristic seems to be—what human nature mostly delights in—a fight.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.