Top 4 William Ewart Napier Quotes

#1. Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."

William Ewart Napier

#2. Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

William Ewart Napier

#3. In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

William Ewart Napier

#4. The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

William Ewart Napier

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