This is a variant of the game in which no check is allowed except in the giving of checkmate.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
Chess is respected in culture and education, but our organization is far behind. FIDE must lead, not drag chess down.
Garry Kasparov 2014
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great.
Anatoly Karpov 2015