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We love to walk 1.f3! We are revolutionaries in chess theory! We have a new way of thinking! Forward with a special group!

This is the reverse of modern defence which looks quite promising. It can be started with Benko's 1.g3 or Mieses 1.d3 openings.

Earlier tonight, I continued my unorthodox streak by taking the strangeness even further with the Hammerschlag (1. f3) and it's black counterpart, the Barnes (1...f6), which is also known as the Fried Fox. I played two mini-matches with a couple of folks in live chess, winning both with +6/-2 in the first and +10/-5 in the second. My first couple of games began with me trying to play the openings in the same style as the Hippo (my favorite of them all). The first one ended with a win for me through a lucky breakthrough at the end in a lost position, but the second one ended in total disaster for me when I not only willingly opened multiple roads to my king, but then didn't defend them properly. Thus, as shown below, I got wiped off of the board at the end. If you saw my king march in the Grob game in my post a couple of days ago, then I think you'll be happy to see that His Highness came through again, helping to hold everything together after a very rocky start. Trouble on the h file yet again here where I think I defended well enough until the end when I let that outside passed pawn advance a bit too far. Last one. Near the end, I had a little hiccup due to my low time, but I managed to get it together in the end. The start of it featured an all-out assault by Black that I barely managed to fend off.

Finally making it into a diagram :)

A slip of the mouse made me play 1. d3 instead of 1. d4 and I thought, why not bring out the king. Looks like an interesting win!

WHO HERE LIKES THE BONG-CLOUD!?!?!?!

Hello all! As the news bulletin has stated, this month's opening is the Elephant Gambit, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5. I encourage you all to join the team match and vote chess games (once these seeks are accepted, you'll get a message about it). Has anyone here had experience with the Elephant Gambit? I must say I'm quite new to it, but I want to learn more!

It looks awesome:

1. e4 e6 2. d4 f5!? What is this instead of playing the normal d5, black flanks the center. I found this opening when preparing my dutch for a tournament. The Staunton Gambit declined. This move order is called the Kingston defense. Contrary to the french defense, black has an excellent place to put his bishop (b7) and black can make serious strides in attacking the center. In the advanced variation (3.e5), Black can combine b6 Bb7 with Bb4 Ne7 and c5 to make a strong attack against whites center. Furthermore, in both the exchange variation and the advance variation. Blacks kings is relativly safe and can seek refuge on the queenside. i don't see anything wrong with it. It is sure to get weird looks over the chess board.

Here's a diagram list off offbeat/unusaul openings I intend to play in serious game's. The name of the opening is in the diagram and I 'd like some personal experiances other's may have with these opening's.

I am a huge fan of 1. c3, the Saragossa Opening. I owe quite a few victories as white to this opening, and I don't intend to drop it anytime soon! Here is a game I played in live chess recently that shows how black can get into trouble if he does not play accurately. I have made annotations so you all can understand what I was thinking and some of my ideas. If I made any errors in my judgements, please feel free to say so.

Well, it appears I'm drifting into one of my unorthodox periods as far as chess is concerned. Played this Grob blitz game earlier today.

I'll start. Not a good game, but to win in 19 moves is always fun!

Greetings all! This concept is pretty basic - hurt and heal your favorite and least favorite openings. Each opening starts with 3 points. The openings to choose from are: 1. The Grob (1. g4) 2. The Bird (1. f4) 3. The Sicilian Wing Gambit (1. e4 c5 2. b4) 4. The Elephant Gambit (1. e4 e5. 2 Nf3 d5) 5. The Halloween Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6. 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5) 6. The Sodium Attack/the Durkin Opening (1. Na3) 7. The Ware Opening (1. a4) 8. The Saragossa Opening (1. c3) 9. The Mieses Opening (1. d3) 10. The Kadas/Desprez Opening (1. h4) 11. The Amar/Paris Opening (1. Nh3) 12. The Orangutan (1. b4) 13. The Baby Orangutan/Larsen's Opening (1. b3) 14. The Dunst Opening (1. Nc3) 15. Anderssen's Opening (1. a3) 16. Van 't Kruijs Opening (1. e3) 17. Clemenz Opening (1. h3) 18. The Benko Opening (1. g3) 19. St. George's Defense (1. e4 a6) 20. The Leko Gambit (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 e5) I'll start. HEAL the Baby Orangutan/Larsen's Opening, HURT the Grob. I'll post the updated opening health points every ten posts or so.

Hello UCO crew, i just annotated one of my games against 1.b4, the Sokolsky opening. Since this is a rather unorthodox opening, maybe some finds the annotation helpful, here is the link: http://blog.chess.com/view/hunting-an-orang-utang Greetings, sirprim

Two recent wins with the Albino Hippo! Enjoy!

Hello all members of the Unorthodox Openings group, how are you all today? :) Anyway, just joined your group, thought I would show my first win here on chess.com, see what you think of my opening. I've made my own openings, I don't know if it has already been named, but I called it the "diamond opening". Anyway enjoy, comments would be great. Feel free to check out some of my other games in progress, as my openings are pretty much always unorthodox from both black and white. :^)

Happy First Day of Summer Everybody!!! Since the whole planet is in a frenzy with World Cup Fever, I figured this was a good time to introduce the World Cup of Chess Openings!! To register your group, please go to this thread: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/wcoco---2010-registration World Cup of Chess Openings - Official Rules (Taken from the FIFA World Cup format) The current tournament features 32 teams, representing different openings, competing in Vote Chess games at 2-days per turn. There are two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage. In the group stage, teams compete within eight groups of four teams each. Each group plays a round-robin tournament, guaranteeing that every team will play at least three matches. A match will consist of 2 games, one from each team's prefered starting position. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. If two or more teams end up with the same number of points, tiebreakers are used: first is goal difference, then total goals scored (this will be the in-game score found on the details tab), then head-to-head results, and finally drawing of lots (i.e., determining team positions at random). The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-off matches, with extra games used to decide the winner if necessary. It begins with the "round of 16" (or the second round) in which the winner of each group plays against the runner-up of another group. This is followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place match (contested by the losing semi-finalists), and the final. World Cup of Chess Openings - Proposed Schedule Aug 2010 - Match 1 begins (played Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov) Nov 2010 - Match 2 begins (played Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb) Feb 2011 - Match 3 begins (played Feb, Mar, Apr, May) Jun 2011 - Round of 16 begins (played Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep) Oct 2011 - Quarter-Finals begin (played Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan) Feb 2012 - Semi-Finals begin (played Feb, Mar, Apr, May) Jun 2012 - Finals begin (played Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep)

Its fun to name opening even if its not offical like this one: It could continue its a strange opening but hey

heres mine