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.

Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did” Magnus Carlsen
2017
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor. Alexander Kotov
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2010
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
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008

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