OPEN FILE

null 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.

No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE Florencio Campomanes
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own. Kiril Georgiev
2017
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer. Andrey Filatov
Carlsen simply plays chess well. It seems to me that in such cases people are inclined to look for some supernatural explanation, although the simplest explanation is also the most appropriate: the guy simply plays chess well. Alexander Grischuk
2014
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language. Boris Spassky
1995

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