The position of any piece, especially that of the king, where a player’s opponent encounters little opposition in making threatening contacts.
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Quotes of the Day
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.
Boris Spassky (1974)
I’ve been playing chess professionally for 35 years! It’s a long time, and when people can still say that they enjoy my chess, that’s great.
Nigel Short 2016
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do.
Savielly Tartakower
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov