Motorcycle7ragon-269 wrote:
I started started reading the wikibooks on opening theory article as I thought it was a reference of openings, but it turns out it's quite opinionated, with lines like
**In fact, 1.d4 d5 2.e4 is also a real opening, but a notoriously, iconically bad one. So naturally, no-one plays it. it has thousands of passionate advocates on the internet.
It's funny but I am reading the article to learn and I don't know enough yet to distinguish a joke from actual advice.
My question is, is it a good source to take seriously?
Well I guess that if your 927 rating goes down, we'll know why.
I started started reading the wikibooks on opening theory article as I thought it was a reference of openings, but it turns out it's quite opinionated, with lines like
**In fact, 1.d4 d5 2.e4 is also a real opening, but a notoriously, iconically bad one. So naturally,
no-one plays it.it has thousands of passionate advocates on the internet.It's funny but I am reading the article to learn and I don't know enough yet to distinguish a joke from actual advice.
My question is, is it a good source to take seriously?