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  1. Pawns are your potential queens.
  2. No one ever won a game by resigning.
  3. Knights should leap not limp.
  4. Focus. Focus. Focus.
  5. Don’t loan out your lucky rook.
  6. Openings teach you openings.  Endings teach you chess. – Gerzadowicz
  7. There’s no close in chess.
  8. Mothers on roller-skates are very distracting.
  9. There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world. – Pierre Mac Olran
  10. A good sacrifice is not necessarily sound, but always leaves your opponent dazed and confused. – Rudolph Spielmann.
  11. One bad move cancels out 40 good ones.  – Horowitz
  12. Play the board not the man.
  13. Some part of a mistake is always correct. – Tartakover
  14. Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.  – Yuri Razuvayev
  15. Good positions don’t win games, good moves do. – Gerald Abrahams