CLOSED opening

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

He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him. Veselin Topalov
2016
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent! Robert Fischer
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke. Silvio Danailov
2013

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