Abyss Quote by Anatoly Karpov

Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and…

— Neil McDonald

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

— Bobby Fischer

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

— Bent Larsen

By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a…

— Emanuel Lasker

Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable…

— Anonymous

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

— Samuel Boden

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

— David Lloyd George

What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to…

— David Bronstein

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

The thing about Gambit is that he's a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the…

— Marjorie Liu

All these systems are in place for the black race to fail, to always be underneath.

— Devin McCourty