The ancestror of the king. A piece used in Shatranj which moved like the king today.
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Quotes of the Day
Garry has done a lot over the chess board – unbelievable things. He is the greatest world champion in the chess history. The question is what he has done for the federations, what he has done for his own federation.
Georgios Makropoulos 2013
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there.
Robert Fischer 1961
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
