A mat given by a knight to a king, the adjoining squares of which are occupied by pieces of its own colour or by enemy pieces that it cannot take.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers.
Vishy Anand 2008
I am a totally normal guy. My father is considerably more intelligent than I am.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
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 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