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.

Garry has done a lot over the chess board – unbelievable things. He is the greatest world champion in the chess history. The question is what he has done for the federations, what he has done for his own federation. Georgios Makropoulos
2013
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world. Anatoly Karpov
2010
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
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

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