ELEPHANT

A fairy chess or Chinese chess piece. A (2,2) leaper, but it cannot jump over an intervening piece, like the mao. In Chinese Chess, the elephant is restricted to its half of the board.

In addition to talent, Magnus has the health of a racehorse and a powerful nervous system. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly. Daniel Stellwagen
2010
I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess. Nigel Short
2016
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did” Magnus Carlsen
2017

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