Chess Quote by Max Euwe Download Open image “Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation” — Max Euwe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Observation Strategy Tactics
Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration… — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image
“while the main laws of strategy can be stated clearly enough for the benefit of all and sundry, you must be guided by the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all. — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image