A 64-square uncheckered gaming board used in India as early as the 2nd century B.C. and borrowed for chess.
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Quotes of the Day
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE
Florencio Campomanes