Quotes on Chess Pawns

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.