INDIAN THEME

A theme in chess composition composed in India by Rev. August Loveday of Bengal in 1845, in which checkmate must be delivered although stalemate seems inevitable. A white unit controlling a square A move through that square (and still control it) and then is intercepted by a second white unit. The black King can so move on A and White mates by moving again his second unit.

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If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition. Anatoly Karpov
NIC 2010
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent! Robert Fischer
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef. Nigel Short 2016
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead! Mikhail Tal
1966
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons. Veselin Topalov
2014

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