A Quote by Savielly Tartakower
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.
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The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
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.
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.
God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.
The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.
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.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
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.
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.
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