WOOD PUSHER

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

I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now. Viktor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef. Nigel Short 2016
We lost the crowns of World Champions, it is sad, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players, Russia is still dominating. However, the competition is constantly growing stronger. Arkady Dvorkovich
2011
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game. Lajos Portisch

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