CHESSMEN

A general term applied to all Pawns and pieces. The word ‘man’ is used for any one of the 32 chessmen.

I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own. Kiril Georgiev
2017
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’. Vikor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
I’ve got no regrets about the games themselves, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play. Alexander Grischuk
2014
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz

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