Term derived from the Yiddish (peewit) which means a bystander whose comments on a game of chess are audible to the players.
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Quotes of the Day
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 believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
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