Top players who choose unsound openings in blitz

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Eugen

Sometimes I like to watch others playing Live chess. I watch high-rated blitz games (usually 3|0). Normally I see all those popular openings: Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, Queen's gambit, etc.

I wonder if there are high rated (2200+) blitz chess players (or maybe even titled players) who choose unsound or even crazy openings in their games?

If there are any - I would like to follow them and watch their games Smile Do you know of any?

J-Star-Roar

Hikaru

incantevoleutopia

Alive still alive and well, unfortunately

Dodger111

In blitz chess using a weird opening can be very effective, it makes the opponent think if it's a sharp, trappy line, even if it's unsound. 

It takes time to figure out why a gift is a sucker move. 

Time you ain't got at bullet chess or a 3-5  minute game.

I_Am_Second
incantevoleutopia wrote:

Alive still alive and well, unfortunately

Look at it this way.  While she can still talk down to you, she cant block you from this post :-)

whatbecause

Me! Although I'm playing rather badly at the moment...

bobbyDK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Hector

I don't know about unsound however he is quite known to play unusual chess openings.

Robert_New_Alekhine
A_L_I_V_E wrote:

Im just curious...  why do you seek to watch unsound openings in chess? 

I think you misunderstand: He said he saw normal openings and was wondering if anybody every played weird openings.

Robert_New_Alekhine
A_L_I_V_E wrote:
Dodger111 wrote:

In blitz chess using a weird opening can be very effective, it makes the opponent think if it's a sharp, trappy line, even if it's unsound. 

It takes time to figure out why a gift is a sucker move. 

Time you ain't got at bullet chess or a 3-5  minute game.

 

Actually 5 minute blitz games provide a lot of time to think and to contemplate your moves.  Using unconventional openings in blitz games does nothing to shield you from getting picked apart by a skilled chess player.  Just FYI

Who says that our level anyone is a skilled player?

Till_98

I´m not very high rated but I play unusual openings sometimes.

Eugen
J-Star-Roar wrote:

Hikaru

Yes, Hikaru plays weird opening moves, but he does so only in bullet. Am I right?

What is for blitz - he plays completely different.

Eugen
A_L_I_V_E wrote:

Im just curious...  why do you seek to watch unsound openings in chess? 

First of all it is more entertaining! Such games seem to me more interesting and sharp. And the main reason I watch blitz games of top players on chess.com is intertainment.