A term used by chess players to say that they scored more than 50%.
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Quotes of the Day
Fischer’s strength, among other things, was his ability to evolve the most efficient plan for the middlegame right after the opening.
Boris Spassky
I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round.
Nigel Short 2017
You can’t look too annoyed or they’ll look for the mistake you’ve made. A lot of the time it’s about looking for these opportunities and if you give them a clue, the good players will find it.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.
Hans Ree
