Repulsing an attack by launching if possible a strongest one on the opponent. Frank Marshall used to say: ‘A man lifts his hand to give a blow and you knock him before he can strike’.
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Quotes of the Day
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
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
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.
Hans Ree