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.
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Quotes of the Day
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!”
Tigran Petrosian
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
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
When I play well, I don’t win!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2017
