The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise.… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't get into this false sense that you are an individual when you're on Facebook. No. You're Not. You're a pawn in… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“Pawns were always underestimated - until they marched across the board and changed into queens.” — Natalie Herzer Copy Share Image
You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is… — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the… — Irving Chernev Copy Share Image
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even… — Arthur Dean Copy Share Image
And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they… — Hans Kmoch Copy Share Image
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to… — Jan Hein Donner Copy Share Image
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes. — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily,… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King… — Ashot Nadanian Copy Share Image
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries,… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of… — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
