Term used by Hans Kmoch and Prins in 1946 to mention the sacrifice of the White’s Bishop (i.e on h7)
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Quotes of the Day
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
When I play well, I don’t win!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 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
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!
Garry Kasparov 2017
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
