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.

Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly Anish Giri
2017
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
” (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
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
Who was the greatest chess player? If chess is an art, Alekhine. If chess is a science, Capablanca. If chess is a struggle, Lasker. Saviely Tartakower

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