Gambit Quotes

20 quotes by 16 authors

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one… — Steve Carell
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:… — G. H. Hardy
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game — Siegbert Tarrasch
I would murder to play Gambit again! — Taylor Kitsch
After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World… — Triple H
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming… — John Chancellor
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen
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… — David Bronstein
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years,… — Emanuel Lasker
A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which… — Richard Reti
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which… — Anthony Braxton
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play… — David Bronstein
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he… — Garry Kasparov
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the… — Anatoly Karpov
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul… — David Bronstein
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against… — David Bronstein
Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the… — David Bronstein
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and… — Edward Frederic Benson
Life is just a reckless gambit. Make sure you play your cards wisely — Izaya

Who Wrote These Gambit Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 20 Gambit Quotes as follows: