A general term for the game starting with 1.e4-e5.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
Agon was just sold for one pound and the reputation of Ilyumzhinov’s FIDE is worth even less than that.
Garry Kasparov 2014
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke.
Silvio Danailov 2013
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
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
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.”
David Bronstein
