Chaturaji Openings

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Towtruck opening

Played Against Beginners. I never play this with experienced players because Bishop to d3 is a checkmate trap.

Played is some high level games to pressure blue.

This is a vary rare opening only played by mostly leader board players. The idea is to restrict blue's movement and then attack in the middle game.

Interesting, I'll have to give this a shot. I've become very paranoid about leaving my king on the bottom rank, because every time I do Green always applies a lot of pressure with some rook-knight-pawn combo.

Well if green ever plays f1 and then e1, 100% red plays ke2 before doing any attack on blue.

Then if Green plays Nf3 to pressure d2, red plays d3 to relieve the pressure.

Sometimes green even plays d1 but that is a inaccuracy in my experience.

What's everyone's thoughts on d3 openings other than leading to the degenerate? I've been experimenting with it, to varying degrees of success.