Any fairy chess piece that captures an opposing piece by leaping over it
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Quotes of the Day
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort.
Mikhail Tal 1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
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
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.
Boris Spassky (1974)
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on!
Yasser Seirawan
