Pawns Quotes - Page 3

• On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Names, Politics

  Song: Only A Pawn In Their Game, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Mind, Wells, Know Me

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Squares, Pieces

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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• If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Sacrifice, Games

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• Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

  Anthony Santasiere

  Kings, Delicacy, Chess

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• As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Character, Chess

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Princess, Thinking

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• Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

  Stephan A. Hoeller

  Self, Order, Citizens

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• He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

  Yana Toboso

  Moving, Boards, Normal

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• Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Behinds

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• Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Love You, Heart

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)”, p.44, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character

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• To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Queens, Capture

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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• He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Moving, Simple

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• What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.

  David Suchet

  Thinking, Democracy, Ordinary

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Moving, Winning

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• What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Retarded, Weak, Difficult

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• It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

  Efim Geller

  Sacrifice, Player, Chess

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Kings, Men

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its success was almost certain to involved them in civil war. And the more politically educated knew that the Stuart Pretender was a pawn in a worldwide struggle for commercial and imperial primacy between Britain and France.

  Linda Colley

  War, Struggle, Men

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.79, Yale University Press

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• You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

  Mark Lawrence

  Queens, Winning, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.20, Penguin

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• I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Results, Chess Pawns

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• I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Opportunity, Play, Chess

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• 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

  Kings, Bishops, Chess

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