A grip on the position, usually held by pawns, e.g. the Maroczy bind arises from one variation of the Sicilian defence.
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Quotes of the Day
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?
Nigel Short 2017
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky
For goodness’ sake, how could Kasparov, after all his matches against Karpov, support him in the FIDE President elections? What sort of unprincipled person do you have to be? I would never understand that.
Viktor Korchnoi 2012
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
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef.
Nigel Short 2016