CENTRALIZE

To develop pieces and pawns towards the centre where they can control the maximum number of squares.

The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules Vishy Anand
2017
Time trouble is blunder time. Alexander Kotov
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on! Yasser Seirawan
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2015
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014

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