The first rank and last rank of the chessboard and the column A and H.
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Quotes of the Day
We lost the crowns of World Champions, it is sad, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players, Russia is still dominating. However, the competition is constantly growing stronger.
Arkady Dvorkovich 2011
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation.
Hou Yifan 2016
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game!
David Janowski
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
