Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? Kids one man towered above all

one man towered above all other chess players

the last of three volumes on 1

positional play and endgame play

knowing that only a win would enable him to retain the title

“And here is probably the most important point

Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? Kids one man towered above allIs 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