From the German verb patzen (to blunder), the name given to a weak player.
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Quotes of the Day
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there.
Robert Fischer 1961
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
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
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
