“To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.”
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“He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.”
As quoted in The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (1965) by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn, p. 81
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