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If you want to post a new opening you came up with, or are working on ... simply make a new thread! New threads are encouraged and a great way to introduce ideas to the club, as well as show off your opening you came up with. The lab's resources are for specific purposes: Brainstorming Room - For casual sharing ideas of chess, unrelated to a specific opening you may have created. This is a room where, perhaps, two or three people together could come up with an opening. Peer Review Board - Post polished, game tested openings here and have them peer reviewed and submitted for publishing! This is different than a separate thread, because openings should be as polished as possible with explanations and summaries. Separate threads for your openings open discussion and places to share ideas about your openings.

Only the finest chess openings will grace these walls. For a chess opening to be published here, it must undergo extensive theoretical, applicable, and in-game testing, and must also be Peer Reviewed by members of Viznik Labs. This thread will remain locked and serve as a showcase and resource of the official published openings at Viznik Labs. The creators of the openings will be fully credited, along with their own personal statement, summary of the opening, and interesting facts. This thread will only be opened to allow the creator of the opening to post the opening here, and earn full credit and attribution to the opening. If an opening is posted here, it has been certified by our Peer Reviewers and Committee of Chess Opening Experts, which are chess players who have been appointed to oversee the publication of official openings to this room based on their experience, expertise, rating, and knowledge.

In order for a club to be officially published in Viznik Labs, it must be reviewed in Room 1B: Peer Review. This room is strictly for peer reviewing proposed new openings. In this thread, a member can post an opening, and members of Viznik Labs will review it for publication to our highly respected and highly desirable Published Openings room. Only peer reviewed and peer approved openings can be published here, as they are approved to meeting the highest standards of applicability to real chess games. For peer reviewers, each opening should pass the following checklists: 1.) Theoretically Sound - Is the proposed opening sound in regards to correct chess theory? While the opening need not follow “mainstream” ideas, it still must follow the “rules of chess” and supply the user of the opening with some sort of sound theory. 2.) Provides An Advantage - Does the proposed opening provide some sort of advantage, be it defensive or aggressive? The opening needs to provide the user with something, be it a solid defensive structure, aggressive lines of attack, king safety, discovered attacks, queenside development, end game advantage, trading queens early (for blitz or bullet), to name a few but not all possibilities for advantage. 3.) Does Not Put User At A Calculated Disadvantage - The opening can not put the user at a calculated disadvantage that is not recoverable or salvegable. This means an opening can put the user at a -1.0 disadvantage to begin, but make up for it by winning a pawn in the end game, or weaking the opponents kingside safety, to name a few possible ideas. If the opening puts the user at an sufficient enough engine calculated advantage to begin the game with, the creator of the opening is expected to provide an explanation as to why this disadvantage is actually a good thing in the long run. 4.) Is Applicable/Useful - Is this something that is actually applicable and/or useful to someone who plays chess? Published openings should only be something that can genuinely be used by people in our club, and even elsewhere. While the proposed opening doesn’t have to be the next Benoni or Catalan, it can still have useful enough features to be played occasionally or even regularly! 5.) Name & Summary - Does the opening have a name? The opening must be named by the proposed creator. The opening must also have a brief summary explaining the general ideas, the inspiration for the opening, the benefits of using the opening, and any other interesting information the creator would like to add. If the proposed opening meets the above criteria, then it is eligible to be published to our elusive Published Openings room! Remember, only the best of the best get published here, so it will be held to high standards!

Welcome to Room 1A: Brainstorming Here, you can casually share ideas surrounding the creation of creativity and exploration of new openings. This room does not take place of new threads discussing new ideas and openings; those threads are still highly encouraged. This room is simply for casual conversation, and to provide a place to talk 1 on 1 or with a group of people at once about an idea, or to discuss matters outside of a specific thread. This room can be used to share and discuss ideas about pros and cons of a potential opening before the actual development of said opening. Once the opening is actually ready to be published, a specific thread should be created for it.

Hello friends, welcome to Viznik Labs. Viznik Labs is a revolutionary open source club for chess players across the world to get together and create, develop and implicate unique, creative, and effective chess openings. The goal of this club is to to create, develop and test new openings that we can genuinely add to our repertoire as chess players. I have explored openings such as the Lemming Defense, and exploring with creating new and different lines of the Scandinavian Defense, and have enjoyed tremendously the creativity and excitement that brings to my game of chess. I want to share that with the chess community, thus the creation of this club. The point of this lab is not to be perfect. Failure is expected, in fact; encouraged. Don’t be afraid to post your ideas, even if they’re wrong maybe someone can draw from it, or test it further, and add to it to create something truly awesome. Of course, any openings you make you can name them! However, try to make the opening “sound” before naming them - as to avoid nonsensical threads with faulty openings. Perhaps I will make a separate forum dedicated to just purely “ideas” and brainstorming. However, if you come up with a new opening or opening variation, a thread is justified and most definitely encouraged! I am very excited for the prospect of this club. The combination of brilliance with creativity could truly yield some fun, interesting results. I am excited to see what you all come up with, as well as to share my own creations with the community. To all of our new lab scientists; welcome to Viznik Labs!

Why is this brilliant??????

For many years I have stayed up late at night perfecting this opening. After carefully calculating all of the lines I have deemed this opening irrefutable. While your opponent develops his minor pieces without a care in the world. You will unleash a devastating attack early on with your major pieces. According to grandmasters, you develop your minor pieces first and get your major pieces in the game after castling. This is all lies, and a coverup so beginners never improve. And you may say "But Lazydog, the grandmasters do it in their games!" But you would be wrong. The grandmaster games you see on TV are all staged. They already know how the game is going to go. The REAL games played show a different plan. Just look at this game between Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov that was never published! After you see the theory behind my Dogcloud attack, I guarantee that you will win 99% of chess games against measly opponents who follow mainstream chess. You will become a grandmaster in no time and prove the haters wrong! There are 4 variations I will show you. The dogcloud gambit, the kings dogcloud, the queens dogcloud, and the double dogcloud (only competitive line). The dogcloud gambit This is a variation of the queens dogcloud where white will play Rook h3 before playing f3 and g4. This "sacrifices" an exchange but gives white a crushing attack. Notice how the engine gives black a winning advantage? Well the engine is a mass tool of deception made by the grandmasters trying to spread fake principles. If you were to take an honest look, white is easily winning. The queens dogcloud: Normal variation I find this less challenging than the dogcloud gambit. But it's still a good choice to gain lots of space on the kingside and deliver a checkmating attack. We see again how the major pieces absolutely overpower the minor pieces. This is the secret to improvement folks, it's here, not some GM impostor spreading misinformation. The kings dogcloud I find this opening gives white an active rook. Therefore I am mostly pleased to see this on the board. Unlike the queens dogcloud, where black tries to limit white's major piece play. The kings dogcloud allows white to be very comfortable and not push for any pawn breaks. The double dogcloud: Very drawish If you ever encounter this, your opponent must be enlightened to the secrets of real chess too. You could have an active game where your major pieces clash. But I simply recommend you repeat until you grasp where you want to put your major pieces outside of my advice. I've had many games that have gone like this in the double dogcloud I hope you enjoyed my post. With this opening, you should be able to win many more chess games to come. Peace, @LazyDog24.

There’s huge potential here. The Scandinavian Defense: Viznik Variation continues to surprise and act as a potentially startling and effective opening variation of the Scandinavian Defense. It’s becoming a primary opening I play as black now, and have been seeing success - past my own blunders. It seems the biggest rate of error from this opening comes from my own mistakes and blunders, while the opening itself offers many interesting attacking and defensive lines. Even better, if white does trade queens - black still gains tempo as white has to move *back* their knight to take, allowing black to catch up in development with pawns already pushed. It seens trading queens continues to present black with a great advantage into a quick mid game. Even if white refuses to trade and trades bishops by taking back with his knight, black has gained tempo! This game i played today was played to almost near mint perfection … until I blundered my rook :/ (I became to preoccupied with the attacking ideas of the bishop presented by the Viznik Variation - still, thanks to the opening I was able to gobble up a few pawns and not be down too bad) Still, the ideas are present and the future is promising for the Scandinavian Defense: Viznik Variation (I was able to flag him because I was so up on time because he was clearly confused as to what the heck I was playing. Another advantage of the Viznik Variation!) note: I will add annotations to the game analysis later, I’m on my phone right now.

Hello and welcome to Viznik Labs! While this club is all about creativity, exploration, curiosity, and most of all having fun, we are truly on a path of chess excellence. Our goal here is to develop and create new chess openings, with unique twists or creative designs, that can be applied to the real world of chess. Because of the sometime complex and delicate nature of chess theory, it must be that a committee is formed of high level, expert chess players who can oversee proposed chess openings to our Published Opening sections. Applications for a position on the committee are now opened. While there are no “set” qualifications for who can sit on the committee, it must be noted I will not only pick members I believe and foresee as providing excellence to the committee and ability to analyze proposed chess openings, but will also confer with experts outside of this club to verify an applicants chess ability and knowledge. Members of the Committee of Chess Opening Experts (CCOE) will serve a crucial and important role to Viznik Labs. They will act as the “Supreme Court Justices” - if you will - of our labs Published Opening’s section, and will have the ultimate say on whether or not an opening can be published to our exclusive Published section. After passing our Peer Review board, the CCOE will overview notes from the Peer Review and make a final decision on publication. To submit an application for a seat on the CCOE, simply reply to this forum answering the following questions: 1.) What are your daily and rapid ratings? 2.) What is your official OTB rating? (If none, explain why.) 3.) Would you enjoy overseeing proposed openings to be published to Viznik Labs, and are you prepared to seriously analyze and compute proposed openings that make it past peer review? 4.) What makes a good opening, in your opinion? 5.) What is the difference between an opening that should be published, and one that shouldn’t be? 6.) Any other information you would like to share in your application The Committee of Chess Opening Experts (CCOE) is currently accepting applications! If you would like to apply for a position on the committee, please submit an application below!