A very bad move or mistake. A typical excuse for a game one has lost is “He didn’t outplay. I simply blundered”. Such excuses are not considered good form. Mason said: the root of brilliancy is blunder.
In the following game R. Fisher played 29..Bh2??
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Quotes of the Day
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
Mark Dvoretsky
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
