Quotes About Tactics

Chess demands total concentration

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.

Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?

Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.

There are fighting generals (vital to an army), political generals (vital to an administration), and public relations generals (vital to a war).