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.
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Quotes of the Day
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do.
Savielly Tartakower
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky