Is an attack upon two pieces in a line and is similar to a pin (26…Rxd3!)
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Quotes of the Day
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
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
Vasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame, it’s a pity that he won…
Viktor Korchnoi 2012
Fischer’s strength, among other things, was his ability to evolve the most efficient plan for the middlegame right after the opening.
Boris Spassky
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
