The portion of the game between the opening and the endgame.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level.
Dr. Chad Witherspoon 2014
When I play well, I don’t win!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2017
I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too.
Magnus Carlsen
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
I enjoy it when I see my opponent really suffering when he knows that I’ve outsmarted him
Magnus Carlsen 2012