Also named zeitnot (in German), which is a situation when the player has only a little time to reach time control.
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Quotes of the Day
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments.
Lev Polugaevsky 1990 NIC
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014