ALFIL

Arabic for elephant. Also a Bishop in Spanish. A (2,2) leaper. Found in shatranj and replaced in chess, in Europe, by the bishop around 1500.

Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly Anish Giri
2017
When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside. Garry Kasparov
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Hans Ree
Carlsen will sooner or later become World Champion. I like him, he is a Monty Python fan, just like me. Vishy Anand
2008
“Chess is the struggle against the error.” Johannes Zukertort

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