Abbreviation for over the board. A player which faces his opponent face to face.
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Quotes of the Day
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef.
Nigel Short 2016
Some players lose ability to think independently and rely on computers completely.
Lajos Portisch 2012
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
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
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
