1k+ blitz games played and still having a rating of 544 eludes me
would playing obscure openings throw grandmasters off guard
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Jun 14, 2014
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Not very likely but can happen once in a century I suppose.
Karpov lost once with white against Tony Miles when they opened 1 e4 a5 (or was it ...b5?). But Miles was a GM too, so he knew what he was doing.
Maybe for a second or two, but he will resume destroying you soon.
The answer is that it depends on the exact unclear opening and how strong you are.
Hi superking500--keep in mind that grandmasters aren't people who've memorized enough sequences of moves to win lucky games. They have profound understanding of development, tactics, and positional play, to the extent that they've defeated thousands of opponents from unknown situations. So they might think about the early moves more than if you played a book line, but they still aren't likely to uncork something horrendous in response.
you would continue watching them devolop and then destroy you for wasting moves on your turn. you would loose momentum and their structure would expose your weakness. play a 2500 rated computer with something like that and you will soon understand.
Jun 14, 2014
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tigerprowl yoda is quite proud of hisself, or bluffing bigtime!? quite entertaining to read Estragon... i'm still figuring out the trunk lines myself, never wandering far from e4...c5 or d4...Nf6. kings gambit is fun to try on lower ranked oppenents ;)
Jun 15, 2014
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I think if you start with a strange move like a4, a GM can convert the opening into a known opening.
you may still think you play your strange opening after move 5 but the GM may have transposed it into a pet opening.
a4 doesn't do anything on move 1 and the GM is free to play whatever he wants in the center.
majimba wrote:
tigerprowl yoda is quite proud of hisself, or bluffing bigtime!? quite entertaining to read Estragon... i'm still figuring out the trunk lines myself, never wandering far from e4...c5 or d4...Nf6. kings gambit is fun to try on lower ranked oppenents ;)
tigerprowl is being deadly serious, as indeed am I.
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Jun 15, 2014
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TomHaegin wrote:
Not very likely but can happen once in a century I suppose.
Karpov lost once with white against Tony Miles when they opened 1 e4 a5 (or was it ...b5?). But Miles was a GM too, so he knew what he was doing.
It was 1. e4 a6!+, and is annotated on chessgames.com: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068157
Playing 1. a4 can be deadly against super-GMs. At least if it's the worlds blitz championsship, and your name is Magnus Carlsen: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1671724
GMs have surely never heard of, much less seen, the move 1.b3
Good call.
Jun 15, 2014
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Mika_Rao skrev:
GMs have surely never heard of, much less seen, the move 1.b3
Good call.
you have obviously never heard of Grandmaster Bent Larsen.
http://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden/who-suggested-1-b3
he was known for playing b3 quite often.
Jun 15, 2014
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bobbyDK wrote:
Mika_Rao skrev:
GMs have surely never heard of, much less seen, the move 1.b3
Good call.
you have obviously never heard of Grandmaster Bent Larsen.
http://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden/who-suggested-1-b3
he was known for playing b3 quite often.
Not to mention 1. b3 is called the Larsen Attack (or Nimzo-Larsen or something like that)
bobbyDK wrote:
Mika_Rao skrev:
GMs have surely never heard of, much less seen, the move 1.b3
Good call.
you have obviously never heard of Grandmaster Bent Larsen.
http://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden/who-suggested-1-b3
he was known for playing b3 quite often.
I guess sarcasm doesn't work well in text.
Too bad chess isn't a game of who knows more theory.
You wouldn't have these 10 year olds beating adults, and you certainly wouldn't have 20 year old world champions.
for example if you played say a4 or b4 against Magnus would he be thrown off guard by it?