A very bad move or mistake. A typical excuse for a game one has lost is “He didn’t outplay. I simply blundered”. Such excuses are not considered good form. Mason said: the root of brilliancy is blunder.
In the following game R. Fisher played 29..Bh2??
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Quotes of the Day
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
Irving Chernev
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
