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purplecaster

When your opponent opens with 1.g4 , what do you think?

Two games where someone opens with 1.g4, one a victory, and one a loss (respectively).

 

 

edit I blanked out some info for privacy's sake, but I don't know if anyone really cares.
edit again It's not really 1.g4 I'm looking at but the moving of the King's knight's pawn.
StewartWilliam

Opening with 1.  g4 is called the Grob Attack, and I believe black opening with 1.  ...g5 is called the Bassman Defense (not 100% on that though).  Against the Grob, you've got to be careful because there are a few sharp tactical lines where white sacrifices the g4 pawn and can win black's bishop if he isn't alert.  The Bassman ( 1. ...g5) is very rarely seen as it is simply too weakening for black to play this way.