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
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 don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess.
Nigel Short 2016
Thank the stars that I have been banned by FIDE so it is very clear I have nothing to do with this mess…
Garry Kasparov 2015
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.
Boris Spassky (1974)
