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.

If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef. Nigel Short 2016
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight. Tigran Petrosian
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
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree

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