A heraldic piece displaying different identity symbols on each side. The piece may be flipped over at the close of a move (or as a move in itself) and assume its alternate identity.
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Quotes of the Day
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2010
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw
Dr. Vidmar
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
Robert Fischer September, 1 1992
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch