Would You Play This???

I'll play you if you want.

dang it just join this group the unorthodox openings group

Actually, it could easily be your queenside instead that gets undermined, and c5 gives black a free hand in the center. What if black tries moves like ...a5 or ...b6?

Ok fine southpawsam, lest play an unrated cc game so you can see the problems with that idea. In fact what you do is basically a polish opening with a3, not dangerous at all for black.

Might be trying for a reversed Najdorf sort of thing.

I have played it as part of an English Opening or a sort of reversed Benko set up.

It helps the game no end if both players are equally drunk.

Alexy777 and I played 3-matches,

He defended with 1...c5, and after b4, cxb4 e5!?, we were in a Wing's Gambit.

So i can't say anyone has really challenged me in my original lines.

Gotta go, Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I am putting an end to this forum.

The Andersson Opening (1.a3!?) is not as good as e4 or d4, but is theoretically playable. The suprise value counts, but it is not strong (including the suprise) as the normal openings.  But if you like the positions that come from it, go ahead and play it. Have fun with one of the oldest openings in chess. Thanks for all of your comments and I hope to put out a new opening forum soon.

If someone's able to transpose into another opening or to otherwise maintain favourable play without playing down your preferred line I don't think you get to claim that it's missed the point of testing your opening because they didn't play the moves you wanted them too.  If that were the case I'd claim that setting up a scholar's mate is sound as long as my opponent doesn't defend....

Ok, but really, in that one position after 6 c5 or something "gaining queenside space", is really quite good for black.

No

Want to play a unrated CC game southpawsam? I have never faced that opening and would like to see how it goes...i am not particulary good in chess.

dude...I don't think you should play that... it just gives away the center.

I would play this, and have, just for fun.  However you haven't discovered anything new here. People have been playing this move (like Paul Morphy), for 100s of years.  It's just a way of "playing black" as white.  There's nothing wrong with the move per se, it just doesn't do anything special, just hands black the minor advantage of being able, in many openings, of playing "white".  In fact there's a known line in the english opening (which is a sicilian defense with "move in hand", meaning "colors reversed" which goes for white:  1. c4 2. a3 .  In fact I think there's a Tarrasch or Tchigorin game from the late 1890's which starts 1. a3 2. c4.  Nothing new here under the sun.  But, good for you for exploring. 

Probably the best thing about 1. a3, as a practical matter, for someone with a relatively low rating like you is that your opponent may decide that you have no idea what you're doing (which might be true :)) and decide to "punish" you and your move when in fact there's nothing objectively bad about it.  People who try to punish somtimes get punished...

I think the idea of the Anderssen opening is to spend a tempo and basically play a Black opening as White. 1. a3 would rule out the reversed Lopez.

You have a very closed and limited view of the opening. I'm basing this on your comments, your "game" that you included and lastly your anemic rating.   Btw, it's not a bad idea to give your opponent the idea that "you have no idea" of what you're doing. It's actually a pretty good stratedgy at times.  Especially if the thing that you're doing is actually not really bad. Point being 1.a3 is not "bad", it's just not good.  It's really a non-commital "pass" of the first move to black.  In other words all of the negative comments you made about white's opening are the same thing as saying about blacks position b4 he's made his first move.  If you don't understand what I mean try thinking really hard about it before you respond with some nasty/aggressive comment as if you were some sort of master.  As a real life chess player my rating is around 2000uscf (although only 1820 here).  That doesn't make me = kasparov or anything, but it does mean that I have a very good working knowledge of the game and that I'm in the top 10% or so of all rated chess players in the world.  That's pretty good in my book.  You, as a 1200 player should be less concerned about how "horrible" a move looks and more concerned with what, if any, problems or solutions a move creates.  1.a3 doesn't solve anything, but it also doesn't create any problems.   As a 1200 player your main goal should probably be learning how to survive the first 10 -15 moves of the game without doing anything really dumb.

I hope people don't think the move is awful, because they may well do poorly against it. It's perfectly playable, it just has no chance of advantage whatsoever.

this is for players that love playing blaack

I'd play the (first mentioned) opening, but only if I were trying to give myself a handicap.

Yea....youre retarded.

I DONT R3ALLY CAR3, WHAT I SAY IS THAT IF IT HAS MOV3S IT'S PLAY AND WINABLE

I can't see the merit of that move.  You are handing the initiative to Black.  Perhaps you could detail what the advantage is?  I have just got over 1400 so I'd happily play you  :-)