HOLE

A square that cannot be guarded by one’s own pawns. Holes can become outposts for knights. Also called a weak square.

After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match. Boris Spassky (1974)
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017
Not this time, Mr. Carlsen! (after winning the World Blitz Championship 2016) Sergey Karjakin
2016
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose… Vladimir Kramnik 2017
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)

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