Chess pawns Quotes

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King…

— Garry Kasparov

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

— Nigel Short

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

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

— Anatoly Karpov

There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than…

— David Bronstein

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

— Aron Nimzowitsch

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

— Savielly Tartakower

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

— Aron Nimzowitsch

The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential…

— Boris Spassky

The Pawns are the soul of the game

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

— Thomas Huxley

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

— Cecil Purdy

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

— Anatoly Karpov

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

— Boris Spassky

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the…

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of…

— Michael Stean