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friedfox99

I just found about this new opening called the orang-utan (b4) so i thought that i get some feedback about it. Looks interesting so i like to use it an a local competition soon.

happyfanatic

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/sokolsky-opening

has some discussion on it. 

If you do plan on playing it you should know that people tend to think that it is worse then it is, and many people at the club level don't bother to prepare to face it.  I'd start off looking at the main lines 1. b4 e5 2. bb2 Bxb4 3. Bxe5.

friedfox99

Thanks a lot happyfanatic. Although in my competition i could only score 2 out of 3 wins as white. So perhaps the Orang-utan dose work a little.