The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
Help your pieces so they can help you
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents
The King is a fighting piece. Use it!
The Pawns are the soul of the game
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
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