Adolf Anderssen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Attack! Always Attack!
-- Adolf Anderssen

#Chess #Strategy
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
-- Adolf Anderssen

#Jewels #Practice #Glasses
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
-- Adolf Anderssen

#Mistake #Moving #Player

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
Combination is a soul of chess.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

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