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Appeared for the first time in 1915. A pin in which the Chessman subject to the pin may move along the same line (file, rank or diagonal) which it shares with the attacker.

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The duty of a World Champion is not only to play games but also to explain to the public why he is winning Garry Kasparov
NIC 1989
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men Savielly Tartakower
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons. Veselin Topalov
2014
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level. Dr. Chad Witherspoon
2014

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