Here is a possible justification of playing 1. e3 as white. In a specific scenario, if your opponent never plays 1. e4 as white and you have at least a pretty good understanding of 1. e4 1.e5 positions (and fine with a few transpositions to the QG or English as white), you could play this to throw your opponent off. Since your opponent wouldn't play e4 as white and if you have solid experience in e4 e5 positions I assume you could take advantage of this considering your theoretical opponent never plays e4 as white. If your opponent plays 1. d5 then you just achieve a normal position. It's also helpful if you are experienced in the Queens Gambit as white and want to have a possible opportunity to throw your opponent off their game with a reverse e4 e5 position. (There are also positions that can transpose into b3 positions with this opening and many top games have started with e3.) Thoughts?
Total garbage and hogwash! You do not play an opening with the expectation of tricking the opponent. Wrong way to learn chess. People are smarter than you think!
1.e3 d5 2.d4, Black can play 2...c5 instead of 2...Nf6 to take advantage of White's slow play. Also, after your 2...Nf6 3.c4, thank you for not developing your Bishop. No pressure on the dark squares and no threat to trade off my good Bishop.
Also possible is 1...Nf6, which you do not account for, staying Flexible!
And then for anyone that plays 1.e4, They can play 1...e5! And after you 2.e4, THANK YOU for letting me go first with Black! Now I have the slight advantage that you SHOULD have for having the White pieces!
The only positive thing I can say about 1.e3 is that it has not been refuted! Other than that, 1.e3 is hot garbage!
sometimes it's better to read what others think rather than posting an uneducated guess
I do read what others think. Sometimes they say something legitimate. Facts though are facts. You can try to schmooze it all you want. The facts are, 1.e3 is hot garbage, and 1.e3 e5 2.e4 is a slight advantage for Black, and anything that is a slight advantage for Black by move 2 is by all means hot garbage!
Facts are facts! You just don't like the fact that I am being blunt about it. But if the truth hurts ...
Is the QGD garbage? Is the french Garbage? e3 can pretty much forcibly transpose into these systems. Just because it is "offbeat" doesn't mean it is bad by any standards. (If you had read the above posts, you would have found this out for yourself).
Here is a possible justification of playing 1. e3 as white. In a specific scenario, if your opponent never plays 1. e4 as white and you have at least a pretty good understanding of 1. e4 1.e5 positions (and fine with a few transpositions to the QG or English as white), you could play this to throw your opponent off. Since your opponent wouldn't play e4 as white and if you have solid experience in e4 e5 positions I assume you could take advantage of this considering your theoretical opponent never plays e4 as white. If your opponent plays 1. d5 then you just achieve a normal position. It's also helpful if you are experienced in the Queens Gambit as white and want to have a possible opportunity to throw your opponent off their game with a reverse e4 e5 position. (There are also positions that can transpose into b3 positions with this opening and many top games have started with e3.) Thoughts?
Total garbage and hogwash! You do not play an opening with the expectation of tricking the opponent. Wrong way to learn chess. People are smarter than you think!
1.e3 d5 2.d4, Black can play 2...c5 instead of 2...Nf6 to take advantage of White's slow play. Also, after your 2...Nf6 3.c4, thank you for not developing your Bishop. No pressure on the dark squares and no threat to trade off my good Bishop.
Also possible is 1...Nf6, which you do not account for, staying Flexible!
And then for anyone that plays 1.e4, They can play 1...e5! And after you 2.e4, THANK YOU for letting me go first with Black! Now I have the slight advantage that you SHOULD have for having the White pieces!
The only positive thing I can say about 1.e3 is that it has not been refuted! Other than that, 1.e3 is hot garbage!
sometimes it's better to read what others think rather than posting an uneducated guess
I do read what others think. Sometimes they say something legitimate. Facts though are facts. You can try to schmooze it all you want. The facts are, 1.e3 is hot garbage, and 1.e3 e5 2.e4 is a slight advantage for Black, and anything that is a slight advantage for Black by move 2 is by all means hot garbage!
Facts are facts! You just don't like the fact that I am being blunt about it. But if the truth hurts ...