LOSE A TEMPO

Where a player makes a move and subsequently makes another move which he could have done in just one move instead of two. 1 e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d3 Be7 4.d4

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
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level. Dr. Chad Witherspoon
2014
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. Magnus Carlsen
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)

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