1. g3? What is this?

Sort:
Avatar of ClavierCavalier

Here is an opening I haven't seen yet.  What is it that my opponent threw at me, besides several blunders?  I honestly felt that my opponent gave the impression that they expected me to sit back and let them win by being completely passive.  White resigned after 13... Qxd7. Turn 14 is just the next logical continuation.



Avatar of fatymid

@1 4. Qa4 is rly bad in my opinion, we must find another way to develop pieces

Avatar of virginianewbie

Note sure the point of posting that game.  g3 is legitimate, but your opponent is clearly a novice.  It's as if you're trying to humiliate a beginner, which is not in the spirit of chess.com. 

Avatar of ClavierCavalier

I decided to run an analysis with Fritz.  It gave only one alternate for black, and that's 10... Nd4 11. Rxd4 Bxa4 12. Rxd8 Rfxd8.  So the moves you guys suggested probably are fine, but it looks like mine were also fine moves.  It might have been different if white played better moves.  There were a lot of alternates for white.  Strange, though, that Rd7 wasn't considered a blunder.

As for the Virginian, according to our ratings we should be close to equal.  One can argue that they probably play a lot of unrated games and their rating isn't accurate.

Avatar of aAquila

g3 is a good move with its flexiblility to transform to KIA Catalon alhekine  dragon  etc. However the opponent in your game seems does not have such plans in mind.

Avatar of einstein99

Definetely different stuff.Sometimes i will take my bishop to a3 to mess up someones castling but never to h3. Also ill usually do g3 only after the c4 english opening,that would be the carl brennes variation.

Avatar of StrategicPlay

1. g3? What is this?

Hungarian opening. 

Avatar of LaBryno

This is a very old thread, I know, but I wanted to mention there is validity to the King's Fianchetto Opening which can transpose into multiple very strong openings and can actually be used on either side of the board. They just badly blundered it, an obvious lack of knowledge in how to execute the position. I usually hold back and develop based on what my opponent gives me. 4 moves in, they have no idea what's about to get unleashed unless they have studied/seen it before. It leads to active games with many opportunities to win, but in my hands it usually turns into a 50+ move meat grinder unless my opponent resigns early. What this game showed was an attacking variant, which really shows a lack of understanding of the best way to leverage it. It's a tremendous attacking system, even popular in speed chess, but it works best when you develop the system... they didn't.