Quotes About Tactics

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

There is not a single true chess player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as gambit games.

In modern military colleges strategic theory often receives significantly less attention than subjects such as defence management and procurement. The result of such an approach is that the military tend towards an over-reliance on simplistic principles concerned with tactical and operational issues, such as the Principles of War.

strategy is the art of the possible

This isn't combat. It's diplomacy." "Diplomacy with guns is combat.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Germans needed to reduce their casualties "if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.

David M. Glantz

David M. Glantz

God is on the side with the best artillery

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.

God employs different strategies for different places or purposes

Even God used silence as a strategy.

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.