JOKER

A Fairy piece that assumes the powers of the last piece moved by the opponent. It cannot move into check and cannot capture a guarded man.

Garry has done a lot over the chess board – unbelievable things. He is the greatest world champion in the chess history. The question is what he has done for the federations, what he has done for his own federation. Georgios Makropoulos
2013
” Chess is most certainly not my life.” Tony Miles
I enjoy it when I see my opponent really suffering when he knows that I’ve outsmarted him Magnus Carlsen
2012
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so. Veselin Topalov
2016

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