Always put the rook behind the pawn… Except when it is incorrect to do so. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra 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
Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they… — David McClelland 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
Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are,… — Anonymous 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
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
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop. — Jeff Foxworthy 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
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. — David Bronstein 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
The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov 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
“Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
