Two New Openings Discovered in Chaturaji

Recently, I discovered 2 new openings that @BoxJellyfishChess hasn't mentioned in his article. I made a discovery about two new openings which are a combination of the old openings.

These two openings are as follows:-

 1. The Standard Fianchetto Opening:-It is neither  completely Fianchetto nor Standard. Combination of Standard and Fianchetto openings, this opening is frequently used by @Botbeg, one of our most active players.

 -It involves the 1st move of Standard opening that is bishop pawn up.

-2nd move is that of moving the knight pawn, so it is not completely Standard.

-3rd move is bishop in place of knight pawn's mean position.

-It becomes standard after move 4 when the king is in his Standard Opening position and the structure is same as the Standard. 

-But some changes are that 2 move knight pawn up while in Standard, it is king up to bishop pawn's original position. 

-We expect the king to hop in first but the bishop does. 

-It is not entirely Fianchetto as bishop is not free. It is surrounded and blocked. 

-Its advantages are almost same to the Standard Opening's advantages because after move 4, it becomes the Standard opening.

-However, there are some disadvantages that keeping you king exposed for 3 moves is quiet dangerous. The players who play this run a great risk of getting stuck with the right sided adjacent and the opposite sided player.

2. The Degenerate Standard Opening:- This opening is played rarely. 

-If you are yellow or green, and you play degenerate opening move 1 but if your opposite sided player plays Fianchetto, this opening is the only good option.

-It involves move 2 as the bishop pawn up so that the opposite sided player doesn't get any free pawns. Then the king is up to the mean position of the bishop pawn.

-Its advantages are same as that of the Degenerate opening that it allows bishop a good amount of space and it opens up trades.

-Its disadvantages are that it opens up the king. In this opening the king is fully exposed even after the trades make space because the king pawn has moved and the king is in the upper row. Even after the king is fully outside the open space, the pawns will hang. You will lose 1 or 2 pawns easily.

Thanks for reading the article!

Aha, new discovery 🦋

this is nothing new, its just a move order situation, also there is the knight move instead of standarate

But this leads to a new position and a completely different result. Though the first opening is almost same as the Standard, it provides an extra opening option for the players if the players want to experience new.