FORTRESS

A position that cannot be broken down. Typically it refers to an endgame situation where one side has what would normally be a winning material advantage, but cannot win due to the fortress.

I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow. Garry Kasparov
2014
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish. Anatoly Karpov
2005
” 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
Every chessmaster was once a beginner. Irving Chernev

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