Quotes About Tactics

Chess is life

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate!

Tactics flow from a superior position.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

When the Labour benches cheered, the Tories were still plotting to get rid of him.

Bezos is like a chess master playing countless games simultaneously, with the boards organized in such a way that he can efficiently tend to each match.

We don't have a single big advantage," he once told an old adversary, publisher Tim O'Reilly, back when they were arguing over Amazon protecting its patented 1-Click ordering method from rivals like Barnes & Noble. "So we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.

Bezos had ruthlessly engineered another acquisition by driving his target off a cliff. Says one observer who had a seat close to the battle, "They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner.

Single at the time, he started taking ballroom-dance classes, calculating that it would increase his exposure to what he called n+ women. He later famously admitted to thinking about how to increase his "women flow,

PSA: The rich are very good at using generosity to get what they want.

when your opponent was at the net, it was often best to slam the ball right at their gut because he or she wouldn't know which way to move. You slow down their reaction time.

Wendy noticed that her chair was at least two inches lower than the others'. Classic—albeit amateur—intimidation move. Wendy crossed her arms and actually slid lower. Let them think they have the advantage. "So

Sometimes you get more ants with honey, but you should always pack a can of Raid.

He who controls the Central Highlands controls South Vietnam. —Vietnamese military maxim

Their style emphasized four bedrock principles: Surprise Aggressiveness Deception The leader's personal presence in the battle.

The use of "war games" is a powerful antidote to the lack of thinking about competitors' reactions to proposed moves. 11.

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

As a player you just go and train - but as a coach or a trainer you think what you can do to improve the team, or specific parts of the game. You will do that on the field and after the training: you say that was the right or the wrong way.