CLOSED opening

Term given to any opening which doesn’t start with 1.e4. The converse of ‘Closed Opening’ is ‘Open Game’.

After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match. Boris Spassky (1974)
I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations! Vlastimil Hort
1987
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now! Sergey Karjakin
2016
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself. Lajos Portisch
1990
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian

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