ANCHOR RING

A combination of vertical and horizontal cylinder boards, used for Fairy Problem, so that not only do the a- and h-files adjoin, but also the 1^st and 8^th rank, and the board has no edges at all. It is sometime diagrammed without edges.

Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose… Vladimir Kramnik 2017
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules Vishy Anand
2017
When I play well, I don’t win! Maxime Vachier Lagrave
2017

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ANCHOR RING

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