Top 37 Quotes About Chess Pawns
#1. We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
Euell Gibbons
#2. It's okay to write something offensive now and then. It lets you know if anyone actually reads your posts.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#4. It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
#5. I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
Zane Grey
#10. Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
Adrian Rogers
#13. In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Charles Buxton
#14. The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.
Alexander Kotov
#16. Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains
Rick Kennedy
#17. Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
Yasser Seirawan
#18. I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
Anatoly Karpov
#19. The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.
Boris Spassky
#20. As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
#21. Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#22. When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
George R R Martin
#23. And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be?
Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.
Martha Stout
#24. It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.
Jack White
#26. And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated.
Hans Kmoch
#29. Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
Siegbert Tarrasch
#30. Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
Elihu Root
#33. Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that someone else whispers the moves as they play...
Catherine Linka
#34. Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
Cecil Purdy
#35. Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
Chinua Achebe
#36. Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.
Carlos Castaneda
#37. Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too ... So small, almost insignificant, and yet
they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?
Lavie Tidhar
