HALF-PIN

Appeared for the first time in 1915. A pin in which the Chessman subject to the pin may move along the same line (file, rank or diagonal) which it shares with the attacker.

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” 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
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously. Mihail Tal
1969
I think the players in this world championship are in different leagues. Karjakin is excellent—Carlsen is special. Garry Kasparov
2016
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation. Hou Yifan
2016

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