CLOSED opening

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

Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do. Hans Ree
Karpov Lost, Kasparov Lost, the Only One Who Remained Is Me. Silvio Danailov
2014
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017

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