WEAK SQUARE

An important square on the chess board that cannot be well protected. During the game, a strong square may become weak, and a weak square may become strong, depending upon how quickly a weakness is discovered and exploited.

This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it. G. Borg
2016
Carlsen simply plays chess well. It seems to me that in such cases people are inclined to look for some supernatural explanation, although the simplest explanation is also the most appropriate: the guy simply plays chess well. Alexander Grischuk
2014
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition. Anatoly Karpov
NIC 2010
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
According to my experiences, in key events, normally the games’ quality is not as high as other major events. Most brilliant games are not found in championships at present. Garry Kasparov
2014

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