The pawn sitting in front of one’s queen at the start of the game.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level.
Boris Gelfand 2016
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
