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August 18, 2026
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A numeric approximation of a player’s strength. (see ELO)
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Quotes of the Day
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?
Nigel Short
2017
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.
Boris Spassky (1974)
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Magnus Carlsen
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