""The opening decides everything. If you get a good position, it's very easy to play I mean: It's a lot of fun. You're just enjoying it. (...) But if you get a bad position right away it's very -- I mean, you're just like 'Why am I playing 960 instead of playing normal chess? I'd much rather just blitz out 20 moves of theory.'" — Hikaru Nakamura in an interview with Ioan-Cristian Chirilă, September 2022"