TEMPO

An Italian word meaning time. The unit of time expressed in terms of a move. A gain of time (move) during the game in that a player has gain or loss tempi. Tarrasch called it: “the time value for a move”.

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time. Bernard Shaw
I enjoy it when I see my opponent really suffering when he knows that I’ve outsmarted him Magnus Carlsen
2012
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
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
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2010

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