ÉPAULETTES MATE

From the French ‘shoulder strap’. Any mate where the checkmated King stands at the edge of the board and is flanked by two defending pieces that bar its escape.

My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish. Anatoly Karpov
2005
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already. Boris Spassky
1988 NIC
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there. Robert Fischer
1961
I can’t tell the difference between 100 zillion positions and 497 zillion positions, but if it helped Deep Blue play stronger, so be it. I was looking forward to Deep Blue boldly going where no man had gone before. 1997″ Vishy Anand

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