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.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”
Tony Miles
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov.
Efim Bogoljubov
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
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
