Chess Quote by Richard Reti

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to…

— Samuel Reshevsky

People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people…

— Sarnath Banerjee

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot…

— Sheena Iyengar

The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for…

— Mark Ronson

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances…

— Emanuel Lasker

After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of…

— Alexander Kotov

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big…

— Mark Taimanov

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which…

— Alexander Kotov

When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when…

— Ashot Nadanian

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in…

— Barton Gellman