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
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017
Man has no chance to win against the modern computer. And, by and large, a confrontation between two individuals is more interesting.
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch