Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? improvers this revised and expanded edition

this revised and expanded edition of The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein

Every too often White players try to avoid the Grünfeld by refraining from d4 or c4

beating Garry Kasparov in their personal encounter

and leading CC writers Ivan Bottlik

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Lakdawala/Hansen: Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? improvers this revised and expanded editionIs 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