A file containing one or more pawns belonging to the opponent, and none belonging to oneself.
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Quotes of the Day
I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations!
Vlastimil Hort 1987
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”
Tony Miles
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
” (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
