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
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
” 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
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him.
Veselin Topalov 2016
When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player!
Nigel Short 2016