QUEEN PAWN OPENING

Any opening starting with 1. d4 d5 in which white does not continue with c4 within the next few moves.

” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Savielly Tartakower
When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside. Garry Kasparov
With the modern computer age, there are some new ideas, but the principles are basically the same… I try not to over-focus on preparation. Magnus Carlsen
2012

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