Pawns Quotes - Page 5

• The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

  Hans Kmoch

  Play, Preparation, Levers

  Hans Kmoch (2013). “Pawn Power in Chess”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural selection's most successful hoaxes ever-and smile at the sheer ingenuity involved in pulling it off, at the very thought of such mindless cleverness. One can still enjoy the illusion of God, after all, without believing Him to be real.

  Jesse Bering

  Real, Believe, Successful

  Jesse Bering (2013). “The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Knights, Chess, Chess Pawns

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• In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Squares, Giving, Support

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• A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

  Bent Larsen

  Kings, Long, Routine

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• Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

  Roman Dzindzichashvili

  Chess, Humour, Compensation

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• 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

  Should Have, Ships, England

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• As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Winning, Night

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• Pawns are really queens in disguise.

  Lisa Mangum

  Queens, Disguise

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

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Opening, Files

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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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• 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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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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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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• Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

  Jose Saramago

  Destiny, Games, Play

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• 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

  Strong, Moving, Cutting

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• There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.

  David Bronstein

  Eye, Play, Pieces

  David Bronstein, Jim Marfia (1979). “Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

  Nafis Sadik

  Mean, Player, Rights

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• By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Queens, Moving, Sacrifice

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• I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Artist, Thinking

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• There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Believe, Excellence

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• The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

  Amber Benson

  Writing, Games, Chess Game

  "Amber Benson: From vampires to 'Among the Ghosts'" by Louis Peitzman, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2010.

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• When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

  Woody Allen

  Business, Want, Oscars

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• I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

  Ray Charles

  Clothes, Pay, Explanation

  Song: Hard Times

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