weird openings to confuse people
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Feb 17, 2025
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#42
I have 2 words for you: Hippopotamus Defense.
The HD is mainly for Black (as shown in the diagram) but can technically be played as White.
The entire idea of this forum is a mistake. A weird opening to confuse your opponent just means that you have made a bad sequence of moves and given your opponent the advantage. Sure, they have to think rather than rely on their memory. But you have just made their task easier.
weak players think that strong players are strong because they have memorized opening sequences. Wrong. Strong players are strong because they understand how to take advantage or errors. And you have just helped them.
if you do win by confusing your opponent, they are not very strong. And so you should be able to beat them anyway.
Feb 18, 2025
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#46
It’s odd to hear from someone who plays the pterodactyl modern and hyper accelerated dragon
Feb 18, 2025
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#47
You might want to inform the wc champions regularly playing the 7th best engine moves on move 10 that they’re doing nothing but handing their opponents better positions.
Feb 18, 2025
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#48
crazedrat1000 wrote:
It’s odd to hear from someone who plays the pterodactyl modern and hyper accelerated dragon
the hyper is sound lol
Feb 18, 2025
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#49
For whatever reason, this advanced response to literally any other first moves than e4, e5 of course, is gaining me so much success and I have no clue why. I've looked for more about what I'm doing everywhere but I can't seem to find why this makes sense.
In the case of that game, you transposed into the main line of the Caro Kann Advance variation on move 3. You won because your opponent played tactically awful, not because of the opening.
Feb 18, 2025
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#51
sndeww wrote:
crazedrat1000 wrote:
It’s odd to hear from someone who plays the pterodactyl modern and hyper accelerated dragon
the hyper is sound lol
As are many of the positions posted in this thread.
Feb 18, 2025
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#54
crazedrat1000 wrote:
sndeww wrote:
crazedrat1000 wrote:
It’s odd to hear from someone who plays the pterodactyl modern and hyper accelerated dragon
the hyper is sound lol
As are many of the positions posted in this thread.
Yes, but I wasn't talking about any of those, only the specific insinuation that the hyper was somehow suspect.
Cochrane Gambit looks bad but is pretty good for white, either making black expose king or have queen and rook fork
Sep 10, 2025
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#59
maybe "confusing" is a bit of a stretch but the exchange philidor is a perfect weapon to get your opponents to underestimate your position. The black side develops swiftly and conservatively but their queenside is ready to pounce with all this potential energy the white side underestimates too often. It's also so overlooked, even strong white players are often completely unprepared for it and are therefore not fully familiar with how black has many different ways to create their counterplay.
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
maybe "confusing" is a bit of a stretch but the exchange philidor is a perfect weapon to get your opponents to underestimate your position. The black side develops swiftly and conservatively but their queenside is ready to pounce with all this potential energy the white side underestimates too often. It's also so overlooked, even strong white players are often completely unprepared for it and are therefore not fully familiar with how black has many different ways to create their counterplay.
Can confirm. I got run over by a nine year old right out of this opening in a tournament. How cruel of him to do that to me after I had just unretired from chess after 5 years.