Quote #1

"I don't consider strategy as a string of planned tactics. I consider strategy to be where you want the game to go and how you want it to take shape. Tactics are just the micromanaged moves that help get there. In other words, any strategy can be accomplished through varying tactics.

This year (2017), I won the World Championships not because I had improved tactically, but because I knew where I wanted to take the game and knew which kind of games/tactics I wanted to avoid. Starting from the ground in tactics and reaching the sky with strategy. Strategy is uncovering itself to me, more and more. "

Jew Doka, World Hive Champion

Quote #2

“Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions”

Henry Mintzberg

Quote #3

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do”

Michael Porter

Quote #4

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation”

Max Euwe

Quote #5

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distant view of close things”

Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese swordsman

Ouote #6

"When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubow"

Efim Bogoljubov, GM Chess

Quote #7

“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine”

Rudolph Spielmann

Quote #8

"The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do"

Garry Kasparov

Quote #9

"When a player wins, he should feel his decisions were responsible, and when he loses, it wasn't his fault"

Richard Garfield

Quote #10

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”

Seneca

Quote #11

“Great abstract strategy games have depth, specious Turn Options, drama, decisiveness, and balance”

Nick Bentley

Quote #12

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."

Ender in Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

Quote #13

"An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”

From Ender's Game

Quote #14

“I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.”

Ender in Ender's Game

Quote #15

"I hate losing and I don't handle it very well, and I always cope with it by thinking that; yeah, I should be better at not losing, instead being better at handling it"

Magnus Carlsen

Quote #16

About learning Go: "Lose the first 100 games as fast as you can, but try to learn at least ONE thing from each game"

Michael Gallucci

Quote #17

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

Arthur Conan Doyle