Pawns Quotes - Page 3

• I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Junk, Bottles

  Song: That Don't Make It Junk, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.

  Lady Gaga

  Believe, Artist, People

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

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Behinds

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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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• First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

  Mikhail Tal

  Queens, Knights, Bishops

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• But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Games, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.743, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Opportunity, Play, Chess

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• The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

  David Letterman

  Russian Economy, Invasion, Today

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• Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, School, Independent

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• The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

  Alexander Kotov

  Games, Topography, Chess

  "The Art of the Middle Game".

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• Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.

  Ali Khamenei

  Vanity, Hands, America

  "The 25 Issues that Shape American Politics: Debates, Differences, and Divisions". Book by Michael Kryzanek and Ann K. Karreth, 2017.

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• No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Opening, Files

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• Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

  David Bronstein

  Two, Enemy, Pieces

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

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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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