“The
older I grow, the more I value pawns.”
Paul Keres
“When you
don’t know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea- it’s sure to be
wrong.”
Tarrasch
"A passed
pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.”
Capablanca
"The
passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures,
such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.”
Nimzovitch
“Sacrifices
only prove that someone has blundered.”
Tartakover
"It is
peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that gamblers in chess always have
enthusiastic followers.”
Botvinnik
"First-class
players lose to second class players because second-class players sometimes
play a first-class game.”
Tarrasch
William Steinitz
“An
attack on the wing should be met by play in the center.”
Nimzovitch
“Combinations
have always been the most intriguing aspect of chess. The master looks for
them, the public applauds them, (and) the critics praise them. It is because
combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical
exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to chess what melody is to
music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter.”
Reuben Fine
“If one
piece is badly posted, the whole game is bad.”
Tarrasch
“The
mistakes are there, waiting to be made.”
Tartakover
“Chess,
like love, is infectious at any age.”
Flohr
“The
hallmark of the artist is simplicity.”
Larry Evans
“Chess is
a matter of delicate judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck.”
Bobby Fischer
There’s
not the mystery in ten murders that there is in one game of chess.”
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
“Nothing
so easily ruins a position as pawn moves.”
Tarrasch
“The game
of chess is the touchstone of the intellect.”
Goethe