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
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Quotes of the Day
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2015
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
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