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A Fairy piece invented by Peter Pratt in 1803 that has two Knight-leaps in its move. It is created from a pawn that reaches the eighth rank before any pieces of its color have been captured.

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
Time trouble is blunder time. Alexander Kotov
” (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
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned. Jan Timman
1991 NIC

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