The side of the board on which the queen resides at the start of a game, including the d, c, b, and a files.
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Quotes of the Day
When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.
Garry Kasparov
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men
Savielly Tartakower
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
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016