strange to see black's success rate here.. that means master players never try unorthodox opening

neh?

Pawn structure classification code (PSCC): 3h|

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/toward-coherent-mathematical-classification-of-openings

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/principal-opening-strata-and-transitions

It might look bad at first thought, but think about what you can do with it! No matter your opponent's move, you can play d4! Its like the potent scandinavian defense, except you have a nice method to block the enemy lightsquared bishop.

useful if U wanna play a reversed opening though definitely not as good as Anderssen's 1.a3

I think i'ts good!

Dear Mr. Clemenz, shame on me, but this is a time wasting move....

maybe you would perfer to play black.

they have a name for this-just crap

bad! very bad!

This move should really only be done after X. ... d6 , X. ... d5 or X. 0-0, or at a point sometime in the endgame. If done early in the game, the only purpose for this move I see is preventing bg4 or creating luft after 0-0. As an opening move I find it redundant.

I have tried this move a few times and does not seem to work espically as black because it puts you two moves behind. However one thing that I have found it use full for is breaking up the king side castle. If you can get your kingside corner pawn to the sixth rank it can usaully only be taken by the kingside knight pawn, and once it takes it the enemy king can only castle into an open file knight file. the interesting thing about the corners is that they are protected by by the rooks who offer them cover all the way to the oppisite side of the board, kindof nice. and once they take you can bring your queen out on the open king knight file and check the king.

well uhkam everyone is entitled to their opinions, but not a lot of grandmasters would suggest to "pass" before they even castled!

piotr96: ["this is worse than h4"]

Actually, it isn't. although 1. a3 is better, this could also be called "pass", if White castles longly...

Basman makes it work

I don't think this one would work. Remember, you should try to take the center early (and later) in the game.

Rifles ready!

this is worse than h4