To arrive at a position in which equilibrium is established. This is usually used to describe the result of an opening, when Black strives to equalize White’s opening initiative.
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Quotes of the Day
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan
In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation.
Teymur Rajabov 2017
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose.
Savielly Tartakower
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them.
Veselin Topalov 2015