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”.

” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately. Mark Dvoretsky
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it. Vladimir Akopian
2012

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