Chess Quote by David Bronstein

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This…

— David Bronstein

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

— 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

The pawn is the soul of chess.

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

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

— Richard Reti

No one ever won a chess match by making only forward moves. Just like in life, sometimes we have to move backward to take…

— Anonymous

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,…

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.

— David Bronstein

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…

— Alexander Kotov

No one ever won a chess match by making only forward moves... Just like life..Sometimes you have to move backward to take a better…

— Nishan Panwar

In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

— Wilhelm Steinitz