CLOSED opening

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

In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’. Vikor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov Vladimir Kramnik
2015
Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns. Magnus Carlsen 2016
2016

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