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”.

Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy. Nathan Divinsky
2004
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match. Boris Spassky (1974)
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw Dr. Vidmar

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