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Pawns Quotes by Howard Staunton
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on…
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- In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all… — James MacGregor Burns
- I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I… — Steve Carell
- I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility… — Louie Anderson
- Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her… — William Shakespeare
- Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — G. H. Hardy
- Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match… — Carlos Castaneda
- No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. — Edmund Burke
- In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward
- A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca
- Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca
- The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in… — Jose Raul Capablanca