Basically, a tempo ahead, white is comfortable. White has an extra tempo, so he can diverge quite soon after the first move (in my case, 1.e4). I have relatively good prep in the Reti Gambit of the French (1.e4 e5 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2), 3.f3 Caro-Kann, and I'm a frequent 1.f4 and 1.g4 player, in case I need surprise weapons.īut I think you're separation between the first move and the rest isn't the point. I play a lot of rare lines myself, and you can get away with it quite decently with White, especially if you're well prepared: e.g. What kinds of chess experiments do you think form valid types of play, and which ones have lines that the computer eventually likes for white? If a gambit is giving up material for compensation, does that mean that playing these off-beat openings you are gambitting your first move tempo for different or unusual strategic plans?
I love to play really sharp e4 games, or get deep in QGD theory, but I think it's equally as valid to play these "white wasting" ideas for white. Obviously, I'm talking about non-refuted openings. I know historically that these don't score as well as the main openings, but there has to be a line drawn between computer evaluations and score stats.
Going through many masters' games I see that it is indeed possible to win with openings like, the nimzo-larsen, the birds, 1.g3, and different systems like the botvinnik or colle. If you don't play e4, d4, or nf3, are you wasting white's first move advantage, and does it really matter sub 2700? Now, I know you can't trust computer evaluations for openings, and it might just be my phone, but I think it opens a dialogue on these kinds of openings. Almost all first white moves that aren't e4,d4,or Nf3 get a equal or negative evaluation from my phones Stockfish 6 (even 1.c4 doesn't look immediately good on my phone unless you transpose). I've spent a lot of time looking at various opening systems, off-beat white first move choices, and I've noticed a similarity. Mostly because white can afford one move on the board that black usually can't mess around with.
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