ECHO

A type of chess problem (mating or winning) where two or more defenses illustrate the same theme.

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
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’! Boris Spassky
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men Savielly Tartakower
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers. Vishy Anand
2008

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