COUNTERATTACK

Repulsing an attack by launching if possible a strongest one on the opponent. Frank Marshall used to say: ‘A man lifts his hand to give a blow and you knock him before he can strike’.

“Chess is the struggle against the error.” Johannes Zukertort
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research. W. Steinitz
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book! Robert Fischer
September, 1 1992
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
Not this time, Mr. Carlsen! (after winning the World Blitz Championship 2016) Sergey Karjakin
2016

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