A problem composer’s description of a move by black that open the line for a black line-piece and closes a line previously commanded by the same line-piece.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017
Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great.
Anatoly Karpov 2015
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers.
Vishy Anand 2008