A fairy chess piece invented by Dawson that moves like a rook except to capture a piece, it must jump over it and land on any square that was in its path.
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Quotes of the Day
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!
Garry Kasparov 2017
A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose.
Savielly Tartakower
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014