Zis manouvre was created in Ravensburg my home town. Haymaker catch
Who created the "Ware Opening: Meadow Hay Trap" and why would you use it?
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I'm glad you can take time away from being a Bond villain and can post on chess.com Klaus...
I Vill Strip all your material. You Vill own no chess pieces and be happy
May 10, 2024
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#26
#1 Many terrible openings are named, doesn’t mean they’re any good or that someone should play them!
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This just got popular...
yeah with the gm ban
It's interesting to see that it is actually quite playable in speed chess.
how does even anyone play this opening it is dumb.
Who else knew this as the “banned gambit” 😂
Jan 17, 2025
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The naming point is confusing. In the 1970s, 1. a4 was known as the Meadow Hay opening (I'm afraid I don't know how the name arose, but it's listed as such in; for example; Korn's MCO12). To be precise, it's described there as, "Ware's 19th century Meadow Hay Opening". I suspect a certain amount of nomenclature creep might have occurred here in a similar manner to the naming of the 1. e4, d5; 2. ed, Qxd5; 3. Nc3, Qa5 Scandinavian. Originally, that overall line had no specific sub-name (it was just the main line Centre Counter) but now tends to be called the Kotrc-Mieses. Back in the day, that title was only attached to 4. b4 as the Kotrc-Mieses Gambit. I speculate that Ware (possibly the same player whose name makes up half of the name of the Stone-Ware Defence against the Evans Gambit?) played 1. a4 and named it the "Meadow Hay". I don't have the foggiest who first played the objectively grotty-looking Ra3. Nomenclature creep is not uncommon. We can see it afoot right now in Lakdawala and Hansen's new book on the Grob; attempting a retitling of the line to "Basman's Folly" even though Basman universally referred to it as the Grob.
He did not win a single game? The issue was not that he only wanted to learn openings, he might just have been an awful player.
Too bad he quit though, probably did not have the chance to learn how wonderful 1.a4 2.Ra3 is.
So we have a kid that knew how the piece move, played nothing but bullet, and games less than 5 minutes. Was obviously horrible at it. But celebrated his wins on time though he was down material. So he decides he wants to plat OTB. He enters his first scholastic tournament (G30). He bangs out all his moves in seconds. Never spending more than 2-3 minutes on the entire game. Loses all his games, and cant understand why he lost? I mean, he played all his openings. He sacrificed pieces for pawns with no compensation. But that's the the players in the video did! This went on for a few more tournaments until he finally quit out of frustration.
That's why you shouldn't get addicted to bullet.
Unless you are a really tough masochist, Seems difficult to be addicted to bullets.