A type of Fairy piece that must leap over a screen in order to move/capture. It moves like a Rider. Examples of hoppers are the Grasshopper, Equihopper and Locust.
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Quotes of the Day
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
” 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
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
Anatoly Karpov 2005