Written commentary on the moves of a game, most helpful when authored either by one of the competitors or by a highly ranked player. In the game below Mikhail Gurevich annotated one game.
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Quotes of the Day
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
Sport can make girls feel more stronger, more stable and you can fight in the future when you enter the society. It is a really good quality for a girl and I think sports are a good way to generate your personality which is really important.
Hou Yifan 2016
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did”
Magnus Carlsen 2017
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
Anatoly Karpov 2005