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.
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Quotes of the Day
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky