The pawn sitting in front of one’s queen at the start of the game.
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Quotes of the Day
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
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
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized!
Mahir Mamedov 2014
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them.
Veselin Topalov 2015