Chess Quotes

“Once upon a time in a classroom, there were two students and a teacher. One student was exceptionally remarkable and the other wasn’t entirely bright. One day a teacher handed out a quiz with 100 questions, and, to her great surprise, both students got 99 questions correct. “Something must be wrong here,” she thought. Sure enough, the answer to this conundrum was in the 100th question. On the gifted student’s sheet, the answer to the 100th question was, “I don’t know the answer.” And on the not so gifted student’s sheet, the answer was, “I don’t know the answer either.” The moral to this little fable I guess is, don’t cheat.”
― Logan Donovan, Chess: The Complete Guide To Chess - Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies

“The winner is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” There’s”
― Logan Donovan, Chess: The Complete Guide To Chess - Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies

“A poor plan is better than no plan at all.”
― Logan Donovan, Chess: The Complete Guide To Chess - Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies

“In other words, a person develops the ability to see how the details make up the big picture and how a large, complex concept can be broken down into simple step-by-step processes. A”
― Logan Donovan, Chess: The Complete Guide To Chess - Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies

“Setting up blocks against the opponent to create pathways elsewhere for one’s advantage is much like the strategies we see used in pick-and-roll plays in basketball or slot options designed to break through a defense’s barrier in American football.”
― Logan Donovan, Chess: The Complete Guide To Chess - Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies

“By gaining an understanding of the movements of the pieces and how to plan and adjust their positioning against an opponent in real time, one is simultaneously activating associations in the brain to identify predictable patterns and determine consequences before they happen.”
― Logan Donovan, Chess: The Complete Guide To Chess - Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies