HALF-OPEN

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

If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016
When I play well, I don’t win! Maxime Vachier Lagrave
2017
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess Siegbert Tarrasch
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).” Nathan Divinsky
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers. Vishy Anand
2008

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