A symbol for captures, used both in algebraic notation and descriptive notation. (For example, e4xf5 is the algebraic notation while PxP is the descriptive notation).
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Quotes of the Day
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
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself.
Lajos Portisch 1990
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree