CHESSMEN

A general term applied to all Pawns and pieces. The word ‘man’ is used for any one of the 32 chessmen.

In the 70s Karpov was a darling of the Politburo or the political elite. So Kramnik is now. Just like the old days. But at least Karpov, unlike him, played in and won qualifying matches. Veselin Topalov
Every chessmaster was once a beginner. Irving Chernev
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years. Silvio Danailov
2016

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