Dear reader, to underestimate a pawn is to swear that the sun will no longer rise because the night is dragging on for far too long. If you look beyond the monochromatic elegance of everything, you'd see that this isn't just a game of luck, it's a fight for power.
If your wandering eyes would pause for a moment to figure out what is instead of what could be, maybe you'd catch a perfect glimpse of everything, all at once.
To say that a pawn isn't powerful is to see a prey through a predator's eyes. But it's easier to win a game everybody thinks you're bound to lose.
You're so confident of your high-flown mastery at this game, so much that you'd even maintain your phlegmatic poise, utterly ...