The oldest printed work on openings published in Spain in 1484. No more copies are known to exist.
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Quotes of the Day
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!
Anish Giri
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz