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A symbol for captures, used both in algebraic notation and descriptive notation. (For example, e4xf5 is the algebraic notation while PxP is the descriptive notation).

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
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him. Veselin Topalov
2016
I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess. Nigel Short
2016
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose… Vladimir Kramnik 2017
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there. Robert Fischer
1961

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