An active threat against an enemy piece or position.
Minority Attack is a term used in an attack of minor pieces against a majority of minor pieces with the objective of creating a weakness in his position, as in the Queen’s Gambit Declined.
A term for an opening variation initiated by White.
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Quotes of the Day
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’.
Vikor Kortchnoi 1986 NIC
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
Garry has done a lot over the chess board – unbelievable things. He is the greatest world champion in the chess history. The question is what he has done for the federations, what he has done for his own federation.
Georgios Makropoulos 2013
I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round.
Nigel Short 2017
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
