Games
This is the only world chess championship match where the same opening move (1.d4) was played in every game. Only two openings were played; the Slav Defense and the Catalan.
Read more about this topic: World Chess Championship 2006
Famous quotes containing the word games:
“Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)