EN PRISE

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

” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.” Marcel Duchamp
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do. Savielly Tartakower
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)
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
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

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