Term derived from the Yiddish (peewit) which means a bystander whose comments on a game of chess are audible to the players.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now.
Viktor Kortchnoi 1986 NIC
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men
Savielly Tartakower
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