A chess movement of the eighteenth century created in Modena (Italy) which involved Ercole del Ro, Lolli and Ponziani. They stressed quick development and did not give importance to a strong pawn centre structure.
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Quotes of the Day
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov
I am a totally normal guy. My father is considerably more intelligent than I am.
Magnus Carlsen 2010