The portion of the game between the opening and the endgame.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task.
Nigel Short 2016
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
Some players lose ability to think independently and rely on computers completely.
Lajos Portisch 2012
