This is a variant of the game in which no check is allowed except in the giving of checkmate.
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Quotes of the Day
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
When I saw MVL’s position, it is like a football match where you’re 3:0 down, with two minutes to go and you’re down to 10 men!
Lev Aronian 2016
I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess.
Nigel Short 2016