The portion of the game between the opening and the endgame.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket…
George Makropoulos 2005
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations!
Vlastimil Hort 1987