HOLE

A square that cannot be guarded by one’s own pawns. Holes can become outposts for knights. Also called a weak square.

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time. Bernard Shaw
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game. Lajos Portisch
According to my experiences, in key events, normally the games’ quality is not as high as other major events. Most brilliant games are not found in championships at present. Garry Kasparov
2014
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game Siegbert Tarrasch
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years. Silvio Danailov
2016

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