Strategic Depth Quotes

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Any state surrounded by enemies will seek strategic depth.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Theoretically in Germany there is more space because it is less tactical.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

One of the things that makes the best teams in the world the best is the fact that, across midfield and up top, they are capable of hurting you.

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

A very strong player can manage and can just know how to manage a thousand positions. I get it; it's a very arbitrary number. So then you have the world champion who could do more. But, again, any increase in numbers creates, sort of, a new level of playing. And then you go to the very top, and the difference is so minimal, but it does exist. So even a few players who never became world champion, like Vassily Ivanchuk, for instance, I think they belong to the same category.