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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.

School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there. Robert Fischer
1961
The duty of a World Champion is not only to play games but also to explain to the public why he is winning Garry Kasparov
NIC 1989
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there! Anish Giri
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein

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