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.

Karpov Lost, Kasparov Lost, the Only One Who Remained Is Me. Silvio Danailov
2014
‘We may all be equal in the eyes of the Lord, but in my eyes you are certainly not equal to me.’ Robert Fischer
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
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017

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