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Caveat for picking openings to get out of your opponent's book Karpov playing black, throws opponent off with 1 ..a6 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?g
by __s 10y ago
Caveat for picking openings to get out of your opponent's book
Karpov playing black, throws opponent off with 1 ..a6 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068157 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068157
Also, good players seek to not lose lost games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindle_(chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindle_(chess)
- Barrin92 10y agoYes, people play silly moves once in two decades, but again, in 99.9% of games nobody swindles or plays a6. In starcraft a good third of pro games or something involves cheesy openings.