Chess Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the…

— Anatoly Karpov

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

— Thomas Malthus

The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most…

— Alexander Kotov

To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A…

— Lajos Portisch

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

To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

— Robert Aumann

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say…

— Howard Raiffa

“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.”

— Darynda Jones

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening…

— Garry Kasparov

Every skill, methods, strategies will only be a theory, unless you proof it to yourself that's true and work

— Hendra Hilman