A term to refer to an advantage when the player had to sacrifice a pawn or a piece and get an attack, an initiative a better control a positional advantage.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
I am a totally normal guy. My father is considerably more intelligent than I am.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov
Danailov, in his campaign, used the motto – “I know.” One or two months later he said “I am learning.” Three years after, we know that he cannot learn. He gave so many promises, he has done absolutely nothing.
Georgios Makropoulos 2013
