The name given by Steinitz (Immergrun Partie) to a game played between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne in Berlin in 1853.
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Quotes of the Day
When I play well, I don’t win!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2017
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
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
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort