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A problem composer’s description of a move by black that open the line for a black line-piece and closes a line previously commanded by the same line-piece.

I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now. Viktor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov. Efim Bogoljubov
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level. Boris Gelfand
2016
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
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov Vladimir Kramnik
2015

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