The pawn sitting in front of one’s queen at the start of the game.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
Chess is respected in culture and education, but our organization is far behind. FIDE must lead, not drag chess down.
Garry Kasparov 2014
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
Alexander Kotov
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it.
G. Borg 2016
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
