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
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time.
Bernard Shaw
I’ve got no regrets about the games themselves, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play.
Alexander Grischuk 2014
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw.
Judith Polgar FT, 2014
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?
Nigel Short 2017