A general term applied to all Pawns and pieces. The word ‘man’ is used for any one of the 32 chessmen.
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Quotes of the Day
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
I think the players in this world championship are in different leagues. Karjakin is excellent—Carlsen is special.
Garry Kasparov 2016
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years.
Silvio Danailov 2016
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012