EXCHANGE

The trading of a minor piece (bishop or knight) for a rook. To sacrifice the exchange is to trade the rook for the minor piece.

Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great. Anatoly Karpov
2015
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go. Magnus Carlsen
2016
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
I can’t tell the difference between 100 zillion positions and 497 zillion positions, but if it helped Deep Blue play stronger, so be it. I was looking forward to Deep Blue boldly going where no man had gone before. 1997″ Vishy Anand
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev

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