A general term for the game starting with 1.e4-e5.
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Quotes of the Day
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.
Hans Ree
I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket…
George Makropoulos 2005
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
