Jan Timman Quotes

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to make more consistently better decisions? That's very similar.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.