CLOSED opening

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

Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Savielly Tartakower
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. Savielly Tartakower
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966

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