Chess Quotes

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My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake. — Peter Leko
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. — Savielly Tartakower
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake… — Viktor Korchnoi
It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in… — Viktor Korchnoi
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in… — Hans Kmoch
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. — David Bronstein
No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack. — Aron Nimzowitsch
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand… — Alexander Kotov
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play. — Anatoly Karpov
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4. — Anatoly Karpov
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune. — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in… — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and… — Boris Spassky
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological… — David Bronstein
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. — Mark Dvoretsky
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti
White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn. — 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
Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried.… — Yasser Seirawan

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