A square that cannot be guarded by one’s own pawns. Holes can become outposts for knights. Also called a weak square.
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Quotes of the Day
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
For goodness’ sake, how could Kasparov, after all his matches against Karpov, support him in the FIDE President elections? What sort of unprincipled person do you have to be? I would never understand that.
Viktor Korchnoi 2012
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level.
Boris Gelfand 2016
Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight.
Tigran Petrosian
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan