To take – an offered pawn – Like in the Queen’s Gambit, Accepted 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4. Antonym: declined.
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Quotes of the Day
In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation.
Teymur Rajabov 2017
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world.
Anatoly Karpov 2010