A tactical way to improve ones position. Rules don’t exist but there are many practical examples especially in endgames.
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Quotes of the Day
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it.
G. Borg 2016
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level.
Boris Gelfand 2016
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
Carlsen will sooner or later become World Champion. I like him, he is a Monty Python fan, just like me.
Vishy Anand 2008