Analysis proving that a previously accepted move or variation is inferior upon comparison to a better one, assuming best play on both sides.
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Quotes of the Day
I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket…
George Makropoulos 2005
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him.
Veselin Topalov 2016