A term to refer to an advantage when the player had to sacrifice a pawn or a piece and get an attack, an initiative a better control a positional advantage.
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Quotes of the Day
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
I can’t tell the difference between 100 zillion positions and 497 zillion positions, but if it helped Deep Blue play stronger, so be it. I was looking forward to Deep Blue boldly going where no man had gone before. 1997″
Vishy Anand
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!
Garry Kasparov 2017