Daniel Negreanu Quotes

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

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

I'm someone who really thinks the game through, who has an IQ about the game, who studies the game, who knows a lot more than just running and jumping.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

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.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

I want to make smart choices.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.