Gambit Quotes

• 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

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• 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'.

  David Bronstein

  Heart, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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

  William Ewart Napier

  Tests, Sound, Boards

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• 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.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Games, Chess

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Kings, Opinion, Busted

  "A bust to the King's Gambit" by Bobby Fischer, 1960.

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

  Bent Larsen

  Kings, Long, Routine

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• 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.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Strong, Kings, Player

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• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Kings, Moving, Black

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

  Samuel Boden

  Giving Up, Games, Chess

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• 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.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Moving, Winning

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

  Stephen Potter

  Gains, Advantage, Ploy

  'Lifemanship' (1950) p. 15

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• Escribo en ordenador, pero he pasado por todos los ámbitos. Cuando era muy joven, escribía con bolígrafo en cuadernos escolares. Luego me puse pretencioso y empecé a escribir con pluma sobre pergamino (así escribí al menos un poema novelesco). Luego pasé a la pluma estilográfica. Luego a una máquina de escribir, después a un autocorrector eléctrico. Luego alguien me regaló un procesador de textos y me asombró poder meter diez páginas en uno de esos disquetes.

  Charles de Lint

  Cuaderno, Correr, Escribir

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• La mayoría de los afroamericanos, especialmente los hombres y mujeres de mi generación, aceptarían la táctica nacionalista de que sólo los estadounidenses de origen europeo pueden ser racistas, lo cual es una táctica interesante.

  Anthony Braxton

  Men, Interesting, African American

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• 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

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• 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.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

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• 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.

  John Chancellor

  Loss, President, Ears

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• I would murder to play Gambit again!

  Taylor Kitsch

  Play, Murder

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  David Frum

  America, Isis, Firsts

  Fuente: www.cbc.ca

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• 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.

  David Bronstein

  Song, Kings, Winning

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Heart, Artist

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Past, Play

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• Después de lisiar al gran retrasado rojo esta noche, en un corto periodo de tiempo he recorrido el camino del quién es quién en la Federación Mundial de Lucha Libre. Paralizando a Stone Cold Steve Austin, destruyendo al imparable Mankind; dejándolo fuera durante tres meses y derrotándolo por el campeonato de la WWF. Y luego, defenderlo sólo una semana más tarde y dominar... y, oh sí, llevar a la escuela a ese pequeño punk, su campeón, ¡La Roca!

  Triple H

  Correr, Lucha, Escuela

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• La reductio ad absurdum, que tanto gustaba a Euclides, es una de las mejores armas del matemático. Es una táctica mucho más fina que cualquier jugada de ajedrez: un jugador de ajedrez puede ofrecer el sacrificio de un peón o incluso de una pieza, pero un matemático ofrece la partida.

  G. H. Hardy

  Amor, Sacrificio, Matemáticas

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). "A Mathematician's Apology", p.94, Cambridge University Press.

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• 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.

  Steve Carell

  Moving, Character, Games

  "First Banana". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. July 5, 2010.

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