Openings Quotes

67 quotes by 61 authors

Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound… — Laozi
The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit.… — Yang Lan
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing… — Alexander Kotov
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt
I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings.… — Viswanathan Anand
Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of… — David Bronstein
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I… — Bobby Fischer
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers… — Harry Golombek
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be… — Jeremy Rifkin
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I… — Pal Benko
I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup. — Rosie O'Donnell
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other… — Bobby Fischer
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. — Emanuel Lasker
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over… — John Woolman
There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created… — Lou Engle
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings. — Vera Wang
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling… — William Vickrey
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that… — Bernard of Clairvaux

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