Pi Opening


Whatever... Nc3+ may be wrong, but it doesn't change the fact that black's king is in the center of the board waiting to be attacked.
White may have "ceded" the bishop pair (why do you always use ceded to describe giving the bishop pair?), but he still has attacking chances.
Black is not half completed with his development, and the white queen can retreat easily if need be. All of white's pieces are open to being developed. In the 5... g6 variation, black cannot further develop with 6... Be6, because of 7. Qxb7.


Then argue with Rybka or Fritz for goodness sake. They evaluate Black as one point ahead in your opening. That's equivalent to being a pawn down for no compensation.

Do you own Rybka? And I heard that you said that Fritz sometimes evaluates one side as many points ahead when he will be checkmated in three moves.


immediately runs into an inferior variation of the modern after 3. g6 =/, Your opening is creative and shows a great amount of insight, but sound it is not.
Edit: made a typo that completely changed what i said >_>
Anyways, the non-transpositional line is fine, that rybka/fritz user hasn't let the program run long enough.