Is the opening 1. G4 the worst possible move in...

I challenge you to a grob match Dragon Fire. I'm only rated 1550.

Originally posted by Zander 88
I challenge you to a grob match Dragon Fire. I'm only rated 1550.

yeah, me too
nothing to lose, so I want to see how I do against it
you offer, i'm assuming you have locks preventing people rated this low from challenging you...

Originally posted by Zander 88
I challenge you to a grob match Dragon Fire. I'm only rated 1550.

why in the world would he wanna play someone with your ranking? Plus your a 'p' so he gets even less points if he wins

He might give you an unrated game as a tutorial, here's the thread

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=57435

Well, on the bright side, he won't go down too many points when he loses. 😉

No love for the p's...

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
well, I'm a genius...
I meant that Raymond Keene would make it 2 losses
what would you have done diferrently than white in that game?

Basman had bad results against Keene at all - not only in Grob. It seems to me that Keene was simply uneasy opponent for Basman. Look at their games - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=either&pid=&player=keene&pid2=&player2=Basman&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=&result=

Maybe Keen is still thinking that with his win in 1981 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1026281) he have been refuted Grob (at least I have understand it reading his comments in chessgames.com), but Rybka showes that it is not so - in that game Basman could get good position.

Originally posted by Zander 88
I challenge you to a grob match Dragon Fire. I'm only rated 1550.

Are you? or are you a closet 2200?

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
yeah, me too
nothing to lose, so I want to see how I do against it
you offer, i'm assuming you have locks preventing people rated this low from challenging you...

Gladly but I cannot challenge you as you only want to play players below 1550.

That is ok. I got enough games to put me over 20 now.

I have found 1.g4 to be a solid opening.
Especially when I follow it up with 2.f4.

Gives the same result every time. 🙂

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
Gladly but I cannot challenge you as you only want to play players below 1550.

whoops
i'll fix that...
i dont remember why/when i set that thingy...
i want to play all stronger people...