BIND

A grip on the position, usually held by pawns, e.g. the Maroczy bind arises from one variation of the Sicilian defence.

It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men Savielly Tartakower
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already. Boris Spassky
1988 NIC
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons. Veselin Topalov
2014
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose… Vladimir Kramnik 2017

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