FERNSCHACH INTERNATIONAL

German magazine for correspondence chess founded in 1932. Since 1997 the magazine has also been published in English.

When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside. Garry Kasparov
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000. Anatoly Karpov
2005
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons. Veselin Topalov
2014

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