SACHS (Chess)

A Latvian chess magazine published in Riga twice a month in Latvian since 1959 and in Russian since 1960. The total circulation is 68,500 copies (1987). The total number of issues in 1959-87 was 686 copies and 672 in Russian (1960-87). The chief editor was M.Tal (1960-70, and since 1972 he was a consultant), then A.Gipslis since 1970, and Z.Solmanis (in Latvian, until 1965).

Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself. Lajos Portisch
1990
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly. Vishy Anand
2008
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go. Magnus Carlsen
2016
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match. Boris Spassky (1974)
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014

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SACHS (Chess)

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