A general term applied to all Pawns and pieces. The word ‘man’ is used for any one of the 32 chessmen.
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Quotes of the Day
I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess.
Nigel Short 2016
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments.
Lev Polugaevsky 1990 NIC
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations!
Vlastimil Hort 1987