HALF-OPEN

A file containing one or more pawns belonging to the opponent, and none belonging to oneself.

I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess. Nigel Short
2016
There is no room for gallantry in chess. Irving Chernev
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language. Boris Spassky
1995
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it. G. Borg
2016
A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose. Savielly Tartakower

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