The first rank and last rank of the chessboard and the column A and H.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
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
I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round.
Nigel Short 2017
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
Alexander Kotov
My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov
