The ancestror of the king. A piece used in Shatranj which moved like the king today.
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Quotes of the Day
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw
Dr. Vidmar
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
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.”
David Bronstein
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world.
Anatoly Karpov 2010
