quotes about Pawns
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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
-- Anatoly Karpov -
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast
-- Anna Faris -
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
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No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
-- Bob Dylan -
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.
-- Boris Spassky -
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
-- Brian Weiss -
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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
-- Cecil Purdy -
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
-- e. e. cummings -
The pawn is the soul of chess.
-- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor -
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.
-- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor -
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I'm a real pawn-shopper.
-- Jemaine ClementSource : Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.
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My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.
-- Karen Marie Moning -
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As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
-- Mark DvoretskySource : Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
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A knight ending is really a pawn ending.
-- Mikhail Botvinnik -
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity
-- Pope Francis -
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I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.
-- Ray Charles -
Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains
-- Rick Kennedy -
To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
-- Robert Charles WilsonSource : Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.26, Macmillan
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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: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.
-- Samuel Reshevsky -
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.
-- Savielly Tartakower -
Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
-- Siegbert Tarrasch -
White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.
-- Siegbert Tarrasch -
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It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.
-- Theodore Dreiser -
He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
-- Yana Toboso -
Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.
-- Patricia Mauceri -
Now I have the pawn and the compensation.
-- Roman Dzindzichashvili -