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I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger -- Reuben Fine
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf -- Cecil Purdy
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess -- Siegbert Tarrasch
In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game -- Samuel Boden
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game -- Nigel Short
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient -- Aron Nimzowitsch
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 so valuable as two Rooks. -- Howard Staunton
As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process. -- Bobby Fischer
The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation. -- William Ewart Napier
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side -- Garry Kasparov
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 piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. -- Howard Staunton
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure -- Michael Stean
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy. -- Steve Wilkos
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. -- Bob Dylan
I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn. -- Randy Harrison
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. -- e. e. cummings
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 male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them. -- Matthew McConaughey
It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system. -- Evangeline Lilly
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn. -- Rebecca Solnit
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 you; you don't pawn her off on somebody. -- Jennifer Lynch
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 partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West. -- James F. Byrnes
I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people. -- Louie Anderson
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. -- Andrew Eldritch
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck. -- George Benson
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 pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling. -- Amber Benson
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 to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. -- Howard Staunton
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such. -- Srikumar Rao
Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play. -- Junior Seau
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. -- Steve Carell
I'm a real pawn-shopper. -- Jemaine Clement
The pawn is the soul of chess. -- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
To capture the pawn, threaten the queen. -- Robert Charles Wilson
No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Even a pawn can take down a queen. -- Chanda Hahn
A knight ending is really a pawn ending. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
Now I have the pawn and the compensation. -- Roman Dzindzichashvili
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. -- Savielly Tartakower
White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? -- Steven Wright
I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent. -- Ray Charles
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. -- Edmund Burke
In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn. -- David Bronstein
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune. -- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game. -- Amit Ray
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess. -- Adrian Rogers
You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop. -- Jeff Foxworthy
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. -- Mark Dvoretsky
What do women want? To be treated like a queen; but by a king, not a pawn. -- James Robison
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! -- Bent Larsen
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. -- Bob Dylan
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. -- Søren Kierkegaard
The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes. -- Aasif Mandvi
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. -- Richard Reti
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
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn -- William Shakespeare
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn. -- Arthur Dean
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. -- Leonard Cohen
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me. -- Megan Whalen Turner
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 while. -- Woody Allen
The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers. -- Hans Kmoch
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
Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on -- Anne Rice
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis. -- Gorilla Zoe
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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 to this end. -- Jan Hein Donner
I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless. -- Hugo Chavez
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
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly. -- Ashot Nadanian
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
The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter. -- David Letterman
All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces. -- John Masefield
In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
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 addition, to the opening of a file for the rook. -- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred. -- 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 psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence? -- David Bronstein

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