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Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!?

Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!?

Hansen, Carsten
Lakdawala, Cyrus

Paperback

Series: Opening Hacker Files, Book 8

General Board Games

ISBN10: 8793812574
ISBN13: 9788793812574
Publisher: Carstenchess
Published: Apr 26 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Is the Grob/Basman a con artist's bogus-operandi, or is the line actually sound? The truthful answer is that the opening is a bit of both! And we can call 1 g4 a good opening, the same way a mob member calls a hitman colleague a stand-up guy. The engine already prefers Black's chances after 1.g4, so nobody can honestly claim it is White's optimal first move from an empirical standpoint. But is it refuted? The answer is no, and what we nearly always get is a disorienting mess by the early middlegame.

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