Weaning myself off 1. b3

I wouldn't ever call an International Master a failure at chess.....I have zero IM norms, so I'm going to go ahead and boldly say that pfren did something right.

Poor old gay trotters shows his true colors.

You are a narrow minded homophobe who I suggest is the one showing his true colours... 

Sounds like an average English pawn pusher. Inability to take a joke.

IM pfren thinks it is ok to come onto threads to ridicule others for no good reason other than to satisfy his own warped sense of humour ..if pfren was not such a nasty piece of work in the first place then maybe others would not feel the need to remind him that to date he has failed to attain grandmaster status which is the goal of any serious chess player..this is not the first time that pfren has gratuitously attacked an innocent poster, he is a serial offender and needs to be called on it. others may feel too awestruck by his title to question his opinions , I am not.

Speak english please. i cannot decipher your code./

trotters64  -  Anderssen's 1. a3

what has my nationality got to do with anything.?. there is no need to make stereotypical assertions about the english thx very much.

pfren was not seriously suggesting i play a3 ; he was just being the usual sarcastic jerk off that he is.

The hard cider is rotting trotters64's brain

Is that the best you can do ..pathetic!

What on earth are you talking about?..have you got anything constructive to say or not ; after all I asked for constructive suggestions in my original post.

If you haven't please don't bother me thx.

trotters64 reminds me of Fagin, that character from Oliver Twist.

What an intelligent remark..why don't you try reading a book?

I happen to get a kick out of pfren's warped sense of humor. Being as I have a 4-0 record against you trotters I'd say just take the man's advice.

Kinda funny how trash talkers do not like to be critizied, as I recall you started trash talking with me and I went on to have you disabling chat and losing the game.

Trotters is not as witty as his other british relatives. Maybe if he was he would understand what pfren was trying to convey.

listen mate, I have seen the comment that you posted on an old man's notebook wishing that he would die.. if I were you I would look to my own disgraceful behaviour before I set out to criticise others.

You could try Fagin's occupation instead of chess !

Why are you encouraging people to take up the occupation of fencing stolen goods. Dont you know about the heartache that home invasions cause?

Of course I was seriously suggesting 1.a3: it's surely enough not worse than 1.b3. Factly, my shortest loss as Black is on something closely resembling 1.a3:

Both sides did not play terribly accurately in that game, but this does not mean much. For the record, the guy playing white is the vice-president of FIDE, IM with two GM norms by that time.

A quasi-GM does not mind starting his games with 1.a3, but PatzerTrotters does. Oh well...