Term derived from the Yiddish (peewit) which means a bystander whose comments on a game of chess are audible to the players.
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Quotes of the Day
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
Irving Chernev
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself.
Lajos Portisch 1990