To give up all concern in a game or formally stating a voluntary decision to give up a game because of discouragement, weariness, distaste etc.
In this position, the Belgian player decided to stop the clocks, sign his score sheet and shake the hand of his opponent. At the postmortem, he discovered that after 36…Nxe5, 37. Rxe6 Nxd3 he had in fact, a winning the game…
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Quotes of the Day
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?
Nigel Short 2017
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!
Garry Kasparov 2017
Politics is a team game, here it is necessary to compromise, to take into account the views of other people. As for Garry, he is quite a contentious, totalitarian person. But in general, I’m sorry that Kasparov switched to a role that does not match the scale of his personality.
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
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
