EN PRISE

From the French meaning ‘in taking’. Said of a piece that can be captured without compensation.

It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on! Yasser Seirawan
In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation. Teymur Rajabov
2017
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
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
” 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

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