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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.

When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do. Hans Ree
When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player! Nigel Short
2016
I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket… George Makropoulos
2005
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine
Agon was just sold for one pound and the reputation of Ilyumzhinov’s FIDE is worth even less than that. Garry Kasparov
2014

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