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In the opening, to play a usual sequence of moves and reach a standard position. For instance in the Panov attack of the Caro-Kann Defense, the position arisen is seen in the Queen’s Gambit Declined or the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

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
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
2009
I enjoy it when I see my opponent really suffering when he knows that I’ve outsmarted him Magnus Carlsen
2012
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’. Vikor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC

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