An active threat against an enemy piece or position.
Minority Attack is a term used in an attack of minor pieces against a majority of minor pieces with the objective of creating a weakness in his position, as in the Queen’s Gambit Declined.
A term for an opening variation initiated by White.
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Quotes of the Day
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time.
Bernard Shaw
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men
Savielly Tartakower
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz
