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
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
My style is based on giving energy and creating. Karpov’s style is something that is probably taking energy from his opponent. NIC 1989
Garry Kasparov 1989 NIC
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world.
Anatoly Karpov 2010
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch