From the French meaning ‘in taking’. Said of a piece that can be captured without compensation.
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Quotes of the Day
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.”
David Bronstein
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
We lost the crowns of World Champions, it is sad, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players, Russia is still dominating. However, the competition is constantly growing stronger.
Arkady Dvorkovich 2011