yeah that’s the St George
Flank openings for black?

You can't really play flank with black as you have to respond according to white
I have a few tricks..
If you play 1...h5, you have no tricks. You are merely tricking yourself! SMH
It's not like I'm gonna go for 2...Rh6 for the hopes of rook lifting and lose an exchange lol.
1...h5 makes zero contribution to your fight for the center and just weakens that side of the board. You will never convince your superiors that you came up with some great idea, because you didn't. All you are doing is destroying your own game by forcing yourself to habitually make bad moves. It does not have to hang material or allow make to be bad.
Chess is boring anyway, why not make it more fun by playing flank?
Chess is not boring.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/day-4-of-the-washington-international
Both those games played this past Tuesday over the board. In the first one, after I miss the very subtle defensive move 14.Bc2, he misses a very deep tactic in 14...Nxc3, and then White proceeds to smash black.
In the second one, it is a race, White attacking the kingside and dark squares, black attacking the center, queenside, and light squares, and Black wins the OCB ending because he is up 2 pawns.
Chess is not boring. And as long as you play dumb moves like 1...h5, I will continue to wish you had played OTB in the United States at tournaments , I'd make a laughing stock out of you playing that garbage!
It may be not boring for you, but it is for me. And if I ever join OTB, I'd probably play flank too. Are you gonna keep yapping here or..?
Notice in the second game of my previous post, White played 2.h4 and got smacked silly. Boring or not, you will fail playing dumb moves like h4 for White or ...h5 for Black. But you be you and continue to be a failure at chess!
I didn't even bother to check the forum LOL, I don't care if I'm gonna be a failure or not, if I'm playing a game I don't like.
I don't care at all if h4/h5 is bad, I'm gonna keep playing it. And suprisingly, I beat a 2100 once with playing a5. I guess that's a failure too.
Operative word - ONCE!
I have beaten NUMEROUS 2100s with far sounder moves. 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3, etc.
#25 "What are you rated?" let me answer your question, 1500.
I can make it twice too.
Try again. You just sound utterly stupid declaring your superiors as 1500 players.
Over the board classic time control, the true determination of skill, not online blitz or correspondence, is 2053 USCF currently with one win not rated yet (will be next Tuesday night), and roughly around 1900 FIDE (been a while since I checked - I have 5 wins, 2 losses, and 3 draws thus far in FIDE rated games this month.
So what moronic comment do you have now for me?
(Edit - in fact, I just checked and am 1900 on the dot in FIDE, and so that 6.5/10 in August will likely push it higher if I don't bomb out my last 5 games that will impact my FIDE rating at the end of the month, one tonight, one next Tuesday, and 3 this Saturday.)

You can't really play flank with black as you have to respond according to white
I have a few tricks..
If you play 1...h5, you have no tricks. You are merely tricking yourself! SMH
It's not like I'm gonna go for 2...Rh6 for the hopes of rook lifting and lose an exchange lol.
1...h5 makes zero contribution to your fight for the center and just weakens that side of the board. You will never convince your superiors that you came up with some great idea, because you didn't. All you are doing is destroying your own game by forcing yourself to habitually make bad moves. It does not have to hang material or allow make to be bad.
Chess is boring anyway, why not make it more fun by playing flank?
Chess is not boring.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/day-4-of-the-washington-international
Both those games played this past Tuesday over the board. In the first one, after I miss the very subtle defensive move 14.Bc2, he misses a very deep tactic in 14...Nxc3, and then White proceeds to smash black.
In the second one, it is a race, White attacking the kingside and dark squares, black attacking the center, queenside, and light squares, and Black wins the OCB ending because he is up 2 pawns.
Chess is not boring. And as long as you play dumb moves like 1...h5, I will continue to wish you had played OTB in the United States at tournaments , I'd make a laughing stock out of you playing that garbage!
It may be not boring for you, but it is for me. And if I ever join OTB, I'd probably play flank too. Are you gonna keep yapping here or..?
Notice in the second game of my previous post, White played 2.h4 and got smacked silly. Boring or not, you will fail playing dumb moves like h4 for White or ...h5 for Black. But you be you and continue to be a failure at chess!
I didn't even bother to check the forum LOL, I don't care if I'm gonna be a failure or not, if I'm playing a game I don't like.
I don't care at all if h4/h5 is bad, I'm gonna keep playing it. And suprisingly, I beat a 2100 once with playing a5. I guess that's a failure too.
Operative word - ONCE!
I have beaten NUMEROUS 2100s with far sounder moves. 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3, etc.
#25 "What are you rated?" let me answer your question, 1500.
I can make it twice too.
Try again. You just sound utterly stupid declaring your superiors as 1500 players.
Over the board classic time control, the true determination of skill, not online blitz or correspondence, is 2053 USCF currently with one win not rated yet (will be next Tuesday night), and roughly around 1900 FIDE (been a while since I checked - I have 5 wins, 2 losses, and 3 draws thus far in FIDE rated games this month.
So what moronic comment do you have now for me?
(Edit - in fact, I just checked and am 1900 on the dot in FIDE, and so that 6.5/10 in August will likely push it higher if I don't bomb out my last 5 games that will impact my FIDE rating at the end of the month, one tonight, one next Tuesday, and 3 this Saturday.)
Oh wow, congratulations! (!)
If you don't have a flank opening for me, though. Instead of yapping about how bad these openings are you can prepare for your touraments, maybe. It'll benefit both of us.
a6 is actually a viable move. Much better objectively than either a5 or h5. You have to play it well, though.
Might give it a try, as long as it's flank or considered so.