CHESSMEN

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

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
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010
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
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game! David Janowski
‘We may all be equal in the eyes of the Lord, but in my eyes you are certainly not equal to me.’ Robert Fischer

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