Attack Quote by Aron Nimzowitsch

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

— Kenneth Lay

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

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

— Wilhelm Steinitz

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

— Mark Dvoretsky

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

— Samuel Boden

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

— Cecil Purdy

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

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

— Richard Reti

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of…

— William Ewart Napier

Pawns are really queens in disguise.

— Lisa Mangum

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

— Boris Spassky