A fairy piece invented by C.D. Locock that moves like the Queen but halts at the square before the first man bars its path.
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Quotes of the Day
Politics is a team game, here it is necessary to compromise, to take into account the views of other people. As for Garry, he is quite a contentious, totalitarian person. But in general, I’m sorry that Kasparov switched to a role that does not match the scale of his personality.
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan