Bird's opening is weird and may be unknown for people.
When i use it, a lot of people force to transpose into king's gambit.
Bird's not the best opening in therms of availaible choices, but it works good in bullet and blitz games.
Look up at Michael Basman's game. He frequently uses unorthodox openings.
Bird's opening is weird and may be unknown for people.
When i use it, a lot of people force to transpose into king's gambit.
Bird's not the best opening in therms of availaible choices, but it works good in bullet and blitz games.
Look up at Michael Basman's game. He frequently uses unorthodox openings.
From's gambit doesn't force it into a king gambit.
Uh...one of my favorite players who uses unorthodox openings (or at least unorthodox methods in typical openings) is GM Alexander Morozevich. Some of his games are pretty fun to play through.
As far as unorthodox openings that work best, that's really up to you to decide. It depends on who you're playing and what you expect out of the opening. It's really about getting that perfect balance between the surprise factor and a decent position. The Latvian Gambit for example, is in my opinion, more about surprising an unprepared opponent than getting a good position.
It also depends on how you define "unorthodox".
Tartakower (slightly bizarre, but solid) Eric Schiller (often just plain bad), Nakamura (dont know how he gets away with some of that stuff).
But, like the guy in post 2 said, Basman's been at it for ages.
@rooperi: You mean Clyde Nakamura (not Hikaru Nakamura), right?
No, Hikaru.
Check this game from the recent US Champs. I love the way his K and Q have swapped position at move 10
Lol. Pretty cool game. I thought you were referring to the (not as good) Clyde Nakamura, since he plays even weirder openings. Now that I think about it, Hikaru does play some somewhat unorthodox openings...
Danish GM Bent Larsen was known for unorthodox opening. he sometimes opens with b3
Danish GM Bent Larsen was known for unorthodox opening. he sometimes opens with b3
And he had a great score with 1.b3.
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Hikaru Nakumura is the man! Ive seen a good few of his games and many of them are off the wall! He just pulls off most crazy stuff and makes it look simple.
russian GM Vadim Zviagintsev played against Khalifman in 2005
1.e4 c5 2. Na3!? and won the game
he played it 3 times in the same tournament.
GM Lars Bo Hansen says in his books "some opening are just to diffcult to play if you are not 2600+ player.
So it might be the wrong unorthodox opening to learn.
"some opening are just to diffcult to play if you are not 2600+ player."
Very true. Someone like Garry Kasparov could probably play almost any opening and win with it in spite of unsound considerations. Although at a much lower level, the same could be true. In this case, surprise trumps preparation.
Which players' games are the best to look at if I want to learn unorthodox chess openings?
Also which openings (unorthodox) do you suggest?
Thanks