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A position that cannot be broken down. Typically it refers to an endgame situation where one side has what would normally be a winning material advantage, but cannot win due to the fortress.

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
“Chess is the struggle against the error.” Johannes Zukertort
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly Anish Giri
2017
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke. Silvio Danailov
2013
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017

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