WE need more information on Unusual Openings

Chess has 20 legal opening moves and much investigation is on-going about the strengths and weaknesses of certain opening lines.

But a huge problem in my opinion is what the SuperGrandMasters are playing. These players are not 'mere "Mortals" ' and they do not play chess like ordinary people do nor for the same reasons, they play for prestige, money or ego.

Thus their Chess Openings are picks for very different reasons than why normal players use chess openings. Do they just want to draw as Black or play an unsuspecting opening surprise for some advantage in the opening ?

But what they do not often play is 1. b3 or 1... b6 or other unusual opening lines. This means that more lower ranked players opinions must be respected for these rarer and more unusual opening lines.

Its like Nasa looking far into the distant universe with their huge telescopes and then ordinary people with binoculars finding new nearby comets unseen by Nasa until the ameteur calls them up and tells them to look closer to home.

Its just to much focus is paid to what the modern chess legends and their peers are doing by their fanatical groupies and this is at the expense of people just trying to learn how to play chess better; lol like little ole me lol...

We need to focus more on our own games and our own levels of understands rather and wait for the MegaGrandMasters to tell us what they think is better :)

GM Miles beat GM Karpov with 1. ... a6.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068157