From the German verb patzen (to blunder), the name given to a weak player.
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Quotes of the Day
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?
Nigel Short 2017
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!
Anish Giri
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky
