From the French meaning ‘in taking’. Said of a piece that can be captured without compensation.
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Quotes of the Day
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
Chess is my hobby. I have been playing chess since five years old. I like to play chess, to help chess, sponsoring chess, and attract my business friends to chess in order to develop and popularize chess. Everybody has a hobby. My hobby is chess, boxing and Buddhism.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2010
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations!
Vlastimil Hort 1987
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz