There is some slight logic in this opening: at the beginning of the game, the f-pawn is the weakest of the pawns. Moving it to f3 makes it defended by two pawns. Moving your king to f2 actually defends it slightly.
Barnes Hammerschlag: how even was this created?
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It's a joke opening, 1. f3 is after all the worst opening move - however the rest of white's moves are fine (until the 9 moves in a row he lets the black bishop en prise) meaning white isn't completely dead. Sometimes some joker will play this opening online thinking he's giving some sort of "insult" or maybe mocking opening theory, but white is simply worse and he's only ruining his own game.
If he could get away with this as black, then that would be something, but losing the centre and hanging on as white is ridiculous. Not quite Bongcloud tier, but still terrible.
favourite opening i´ve beaten magnus with this
today I found the "Barnes opening: Hammerschlag variation" in the opening database. It is like this. HOW WAS THIS CREATED?
creation reason 1: before castling is allowed, this is an offbeat opening for players who try to avoid e line tension, they aim for this:
or something similar. It's still weird
creation reason 2: Bongcloud jokers get creative.
comment on your thoughts about how this was created.