The name given to the twenty-sixth game, a Dutch Defence, played in the World Championship by Max Euwe-Alexander Alekhine in 1935. Euwe won the game in 47 moves, which virtually decided the match.
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Quotes of the Day
When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player!
Nigel Short 2016
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
” 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
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower
