A continuous line of squares. Identification is made by naming the squares at each end. The diagonals a1- h8 and h1- a8 are known as the long diagonals.
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Quotes of the Day
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Rudolf Spielmann
Fischer wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me.
Vishy Anand 2008
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!
Garry Kasparov 2017
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
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014