WOOD PUSHER

A chess player who does not think and whose main accomplishment is pushing the wooden pieces around the board.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game! David Janowski
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
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
I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques. Nigel Short
2016
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years. Silvio Danailov
2016

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