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
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent!
Robert Fischer
Who was the greatest chess player? If chess is an art, Alekhine. If chess is a science, Capablanca. If chess is a struggle, Lasker.
Saviely Tartakower
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016