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Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The…
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined…
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the…
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer…
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as…
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,…
Chess is mental torture.
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess…
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method…
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King…
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with…

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The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains.… — Sun Tzu
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing — Savielly Tartakower
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is… — Gerald Abrahams
The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without… — Robert Teeter
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. — Saul Alinsky
Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy. — Garry Kasparov
Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to… — Steve Cauthen
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational… — Norman Schwarzkopf
Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer — Robert Asprin
On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master… — Shashi Tharoor
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a… — Norman Schwarzkopf

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