EXCHANGE

The trading of a minor piece (bishop or knight) for a rook. To sacrifice the exchange is to trade the rook for the minor piece.

Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style. Garry Kasparov
2017
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules Vishy Anand
2017
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966

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