Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

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.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

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

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

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.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.

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

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.