The pawn sitting in front of one’s queen at the start of the game.
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Quotes of the Day
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years.
Silvio Danailov 2016
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already.
Boris Spassky 1988 NIC
Thank the stars that I have been banned by FIDE so it is very clear I have nothing to do with this mess…
Garry Kasparov 2015
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Rudolf Spielmann
