Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.
Eugene Znosko-BorovskyIt is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.
Eugene Znosko-BorovskyThe middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky