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
Despite the ugliness of his decline, Bobby Fischer deserves to be remembered for the great things he did for chess and for his immortal games.
Garry Kasparov 2004
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer.
Andrey Filatov
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.”
David Bronstein
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
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017