Best Gambit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances. ("Trompe le pied.")”

Circumstances Psychological Mysterious Interpretation Find Crippled Flicker Manipulative Number Hazy Social Relationships Gambit Lucid Minefield Undercurrent Power Games Acrimonious Tell Tale

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.”

“In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.”

Force Loses Opinion Kings Busted Gambit

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.”

Gains Advantage Ploy Gambit

Author:Stephen Potter

“Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.”

Trying Looks Moving Winning Black White Kings Cost Activity Approach Foundation Strategy Structure Chess Superiors Opening Thanks Pawns Endgame Stifling Gambit

Author:Neil McDonald

“In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game”

Giving Games Lost Giving Up Sake Chess Pawns Gambit

Author:Samuel Boden

“Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the region. Same thing that he's authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America's allies and friends in the region.”

Way Firsts America Trump China Regions Allies Isis Provocative Gambit

Author:David Frum

“I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.”

Looks Character Moving Games Sides Complexes Tiny Chess Opening Pawns Improvising Endgame Gambit

Author:Steve Carell

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game”

Games Player Objects Cost Losing Chess Opening Reputation Acquire Chess Game Chess Players Playing Chess Dashing Gambit Losing A Game

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“I would murder to play Gambit again!”

Play Murder Gambit

Author:Taylor Kitsch

“After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World Wrestling Federation! Crippling Stone Cold Steve Austin, destroying the unstoppable Mankind; putting him out for three months and beating him for the WWF championship. And then, defending it only a week later and dominating...and, oh yeah, taking to school that little punk, your champion, The Rock!”

“In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.”

Wells Sound Tests Chess Boards Laboratory Gambit

Author:William Ewart Napier

“There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.”

Has Beens President Loss Ears Presses Bunch Tone Monkeys Hearing Loss Gambit

Author:John Chancellor

“A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!”

May Long Loses Kings Chess Routine Sheer Pawns Gambit

Author:Bent Larsen

“There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.”

World Heart Long Doe Games Sound Player Beats Mere Chess Familiar Faster Beloved Chess Players Gambit

Book:200 Open Games

Source: 200 Open Games

“The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.”

Men Way Years Stories Young Turns Novel Player Position Youth Adventure Lays Delight Chess Psychological Indian Young Man Reaching Mature Manhood Gambit Vivacious

Author:Emanuel Lasker

“A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game”

“Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.”

Men Interesting Accepting Generations He Man Men And Women African American Racist My Generation Gambit

Author:Anthony Braxton

“What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.”

Play Past Kings Devil Chess Likes Opening Possessed Gambit

Author:David Bronstein

“Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he did not lose a single game with the King's Gambit, and among those defeated were numerous strong players of all generations, from Averbakh, Bronstein and Fischer, to Seirawan.”

Years Games Strong Loses Class Player Generations Kings Periods Chess Opening Defeated Fischer Gambit

Author:Garry Kasparov

“It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.”

Moving Black Kings Edges Strikes Chess Opening Misfortunes Abyss Gambit

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.”

Heart Soul Reason Artist Force Term Secret Player Materials Kings Victory Chess Opening Subtle Heart And Soul Crude Gambit

Book:200 Open Games

Source: 200 Open Games

“It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.”

Trying Would Be Song Winning Study Kings Ridiculous Chess Opening Representatives Naive Nightingales Gambit

Book:200 Open Games

Source: 200 Open Games

“Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.”

Games Five Impossible Theory Kings Regard Agree Chess Opening Tournaments Gambit

Author:David Bronstein

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