To develop pieces and pawns towards the centre where they can control the maximum number of squares.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
After losing a game I play the next one better. After losing the 2nd game I play like a lion. After 3 defeats in a row, anyone can beat me!
Eduard Gufeld
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC