The Problem composed by Dr. Conrad Bayer was chritened the Immortal Problem and for several decades ranked as one of the greatest extant compositions.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
Chess is my hobby. I have been playing chess since five years old. I like to play chess, to help chess, sponsoring chess, and attract my business friends to chess in order to develop and popularize chess. Everybody has a hobby. My hobby is chess, boxing and Buddhism.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2010
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2015
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