To take – an offered pawn – Like in the Queen’s Gambit, Accepted 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4. Antonym: declined.
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Quotes of the Day
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years.
Silvio Danailov 2016
Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight.
Tigran Petrosian
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
Alexander Kotov
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did”
Magnus Carlsen 2017