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.

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
I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques. Nigel Short
2016
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years. Silvio Danailov
2016
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game Siegbert Tarrasch
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” David Bronstein

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