The pawn sitting in front of one’s queen at the start of the game.
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Quotes of the Day
Who was the greatest chess player? If chess is an art, Alekhine. If chess is a science, Capablanca. If chess is a struggle, Lasker.
Saviely Tartakower
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
‘We may all be equal in the eyes of the Lord, but in my eyes you are certainly not equal to me.’
Robert Fischer
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years.
Silvio Danailov 2016
