To develop pieces and pawns towards the centre where they can control the maximum number of squares.
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Quotes of the Day
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
Garry has done a lot over the chess board – unbelievable things. He is the greatest world champion in the chess history. The question is what he has done for the federations, what he has done for his own federation.
Georgios Makropoulos 2013
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
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world.
Anatoly Karpov 2010
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did”
Magnus Carlsen 2017