To give up all concern in a game or formally stating a voluntary decision to give up a game because of discouragement, weariness, distaste etc.
In this position, the Belgian player decided to stop the clocks, sign his score sheet and shake the hand of his opponent. At the postmortem, he discovered that after 36…Nxe5, 37. Rxe6 Nxd3 he had in fact, a winning the game…
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Quotes of the Day
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke.
Silvio Danailov 2013
Carlsen will sooner or later become World Champion. I like him, he is a Monty Python fan, just like me.
Vishy Anand 2008
Not this time, Mr. Carlsen! (after winning the World Blitz Championship 2016)
Sergey Karjakin 2016
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
