Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? improvers this volume will make chess

this volume will make chess players think deeply about how they start their games

there are no perfect games at the highest level to be seen here

Think Like a Machine by Noam Manella and Zeev Zohar challenges players to adopt computational thinking in pursuit positions

and leading CC writers Ivan Bottlik

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Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? improvers this volume will make 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