Context is everything, and I think your example only highlights how unhelpful it is to specify that q2-q4 is the beginning of the closed game. I think most Eng

Context is everything, and I think your example only highlights how unhelpful it is to specify that q2-q4 is the beginning of the closed game. I think most English speakers would agree that Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is a notable outlier of what is expected after "It was the best of times." That's the exact work of literature that popularized the phrase. By contrast, mention q2-q4 to any "chess speaker" and they won't be specifically prompted to think of the closed game at all.