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
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
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
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!
Garry Kasparov 2017