The first rank and last rank of the chessboard and the column A and H.
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Quotes of the Day
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent!
Robert Fischer
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
