lol what if black did d5?
c4 as white: genius or mistake
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It's neither genius nor a mistake.
It's just a standard opening move, slightly less popular than a few of the others.
Since Kasparov used it to win a must win game against Karpov to retain his world title I'm going to pick genius.
If you know chess Dutch you'll find that each and every move counts ;) and I'll research main lines with c4 and show them
If i had to play that move i would play this:
Basically getting a transposition into something like the Rubinstein.
c4 as white I think is a mistake because it doesn't give as much central control
and doesn't let either bishop out