There were no universal accepted laws of chess in the XIX century until the British chess code was compiled and released by Rev. E.E. Cunnington in 1903.
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Quotes of the Day
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017
I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too.
Magnus Carlsen
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky