The ancestror of the king. A piece used in Shatranj which moved like the king today.
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Quotes of the Day
Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great.
Anatoly Karpov 2015
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
