A ruse by which a player with a losing position achieves to win the game. BCM64/273
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Quotes of the Day
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round.
Nigel Short 2017
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2015
