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
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world.
Anatoly Karpov 2010
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016