Basman's Folly Biographical Chess Books you get a firm understanding

you get a firm understanding of each type of mistake

World Champion Kramnik

Cover Story: A TACTICIAN WITH STRONG COMPETITIVE DRIVE

chess clocks

move by move… with a dark square bishop exchange

Basman's Folly Biographical Chess Books you get a firm understandingIs 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 refuted? The answer is "no," and what we nearly