Pawns Quotes

141 Pawns quotes by 106 unique authors

By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn,… — Emanuel Lasker
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful… — Jan Hein Donner
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think… — Mikhail Tal
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller
What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties:… — Samuel Reshevsky
If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will… — Irving Chernev
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the… — Kenny Smith
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave… — Pope Francis
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity — Pope Francis
There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a… — Richard Bach
I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just… — Jennifer Lynch
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks… — Howard Staunton
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of… — Howard Staunton
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally… — Howard Staunton
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly… — Howard Staunton
When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a… — Howard Staunton
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a… — James F. Byrnes
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a… — Amber Benson
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a… — Woody Allen
I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent. — Ray Charles
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things,… — Bob Dylan
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash. — Jonathan Lethem
It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game… — Paul Watzlawick
I'm a real pawn-shopper. — Jemaine Clement

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