EN PRISE

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

Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly Anish Giri
2017
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time. Bernard Shaw
My style is based on giving energy and creating. Karpov’s style is something that is probably taking energy from his opponent. NIC 1989 Garry Kasparov
1989 NIC
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. Savielly Tartakower
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014

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