The exercising of power over a piece, a position or a square. Some opening like the French Defence is an immediate struggle for the control of the center.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns.
Magnus Carlsen 2016 2016
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers.
Vishy Anand 2008