New Opening ''1919 Opening''

• "1919 Opening" is an opening that begins with establishing a defensive wall in the initial moves of the pawns, followed by rapid development to seize central control. This opening symbolizes the defense and sudden attack against the central enemy occupation in the Turkish War of Independence starting in 1919.
  This opening can be played by both black and white. Additionally, its name derives from this resemblance to the Turkish War of Independence, as it starts with what appears to be a defensive posture but swiftly transitions to an aggressive stance, reminiscent of how we initially seemed to defend but then suddenly launched attacks with knights and bishops.
  What score would you give to my opening out of 10, in your opinion?

It looks bad, e.g.

Why? tygxc.

The above line already exist in chess.

I can’t remember the name of it.

I think the name is the Compact Defense, but I could be wrong.

It looks like your trying to play an inferior version of the line with the white pieces.

Some violated opening principles:

- Occupy as much of the center as you can. You clearly don't do that.

- Develop your pieces to their most active and safe squares. Your bishops are placed passively and without much scope for early activity.

- Don't allow your opponent easy development and piece activity. Clearly you don't care about it, and you don't present him any problem to solve.

These reasons are enough to discard this closing (rather than opening) as junk.

@4

That compact defense is indeed better, but still bad, even as white.

I researched compact defense but couldn't find anything significant.

I didn't understand tygxc, can you say it again?

@9

Your moves a3, h3 are weakening, and Rc1, Rf1 are no more active than on a1 and h1, so contribute nothing and are indeed better replaced by O-O per @4, which puts your king to safety and connects your rooks.
Even then the line @7 is much better for black. White has a passive position.

Much more viable is the Hippopotamus Defense.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106734

There are even more violated principles.

-Bring your King to a safe position (which usually means castling to a safe side).

-Connect your Rooks, so they can work together.

etc.

Honestly, I was thinking the same thing Post #10 was.

Sometimes, the moves a3 or h3 are very good moves to prevent your enemy from doing a Bishop Pin on your Knight.

The Bishop Pin can be extremely annoying if you develop your bishop outside of a pawn chain or traded you bishop off.

I played a few moves, but the above diagram is an example.

Your Light Square Bishop can’t get to e2 any more.

‘Your Knight on f3 is pin to your Queen.

‘If you move your Queen, your opponent can take knight and you would be forced to take with your G pawn ruining your pawn structure.

You could play h3 & g5 like above to break pin, but it would also be weakening to King side.

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‘For all the above reasons, Sometimes players will play h3 as a preventive move before the enemy pins the Knight.

Before white plays d3 locking out his bishop, he inserted move h3 so they can’t pin knight.

Than he played d3.

‘The above logical is why most people do the side pawn moves.

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‘The other logical reason is to give their King Loft so they can’t get back rank mated.

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‘In your diagram, you are playing a3 & h3, but they don’t seem to have any logical function.

‘Your Bishops are on e2 and d2 so you don’t have to worry about bishop pin.

‘Your King doesn’t need loft in beginning of game so that’s bad as well.

I played this 1919 opening against a 2100 as an 880 and won. he kept saying how bad of an opening it was but after he lost, he said it just looked weird and it was an ambitous opening.

And then you suddenly woke up?

Very suspicious story.

It reminds me of when I first started and would get trounced in the opening so I just turtled up my pieces in the fetal position and tried to survive.