William Ewart Napier Quotes

• 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

  Tests, Sound, Boards

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• 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

  Long, Chess, Faults

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• 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

  Moving, Eight, Dollars

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• 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

  Bird, Chess, Humour

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