Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? topmaterial Match/Tournament for the World Chess

Match/Tournament for the World Chess Championship

Mark Dworetski (*1947 †2016)

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Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? topmaterial Match/Tournament for the World ChessIs the Grob Basman a con artist's bogus operandi, or is the line actually sound? The truthful answer is that the opening is a bit of both! And we can call 1 g4 a "good opening," the same way a mob member calls a hitman colleague "a stand up guy." The engine already prefers Black's chances after 1. g4, so nobody can honestly claim it is White's optimal first move from an empirical standpoint. But is it refused? The answer is "no," and what we nearly