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Orangutan Opening

  • 6 years ago · Quote · #1

    vernon

    As Bill Wall posted in the chessopedia The Orangutan Opening here is the game in which he refers and where it was first played

     

     

     

     

     

     Event New York International Tournament

    Site New York International Tournament

    Date 1924

  • 5 years ago · Quote · #2

    Mygame5377

    I don't see how u can play an opening like that.

  • 5 years ago · Quote · #3

    photray94

    This is actually known most commonly as the Polish Opening.  There's a book all about it named Play 1b4!: Shock your opponents with the Sokolsky.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #4

    AaronSchloss

    The sokolsky is a valid opening, actually, and there is no need to use it to shock your opponents. I have over a 70% winrate with it in tournament settings.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #5

    whergonow

    ummm why didn't  black just take the pawn when it was hanging ?

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #6

    IM pfren

    Nothing wrong with it, and nothing terribly good, either. Black has many ways to get a good game, simplest one (no need for virtually any theory at all) is simple development with ...e5, ...d6, ...f5, ...Nf6, ...Be7 and so on.

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