A file on which there is no pawn to obstruct a rook which therefore can control the whole file. The white rook is controlling the open E-file.
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Quotes of the Day
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly.
Daniel Stellwagen 2010
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round.
Nigel Short 2017
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2010