Na3 sodium opening is it any good or am I a fool for liking it...???

Fairy tail chess guild is my dream but is sodium of any use as a opening??

There are no unsound openings. Only unsound players.

Poetic nice art though wise in the games of the thisty mind...

Is any opening any good? Depends how you play it, under what circumstance and against who.

Personally a favorite variation of mine is 1.Na3 e5 2.Nf3 Bxa3 3.bxa3 e4 4.Bb2!

1. Na3 e5 2. Nf3 Bxa3 3. bxa3 e4 4. Bb2 exf3 5. Bxg7 fxg2 6. Rg1 gxf1=Q+ 7.

Kxf1 Qh4 8. Bxh8 Ne7

And white is doing very badly.

Or

1. Na3 e5 2. Nf3 Bxa3 3. bxa3 e4 4. Bb2 exf3 5. Bxg7 fxg2 6. Bxg2 Qg5 7. Bxh8

Qxg2 8. Rf1 Ne7

And white is even worse

I love the Na attack!

Dude, put your chess engine way. I said it was my favorite variation, not that it was sound.

I like the opening as well

In general, "a knight on the rim is grim", but each to his own ...

It's clearly inferior for a number of reasons, the most important being that you're placing the knight away from the action, although it might be playable. Actually with this move you're throwing away the first move advantage, and the only thing you get in return is getting your opponent out of opening theory - but if that's your poing, why not go for an uncommon but more sound opening, such as the Bird (1.f4) for instance?

Its a REALLY simple refutation Hadron. The only reason I had my engine out was to check to see just how bad you line was.

Fair enough dude. The fact you needed an engine to check speaks volumes in its own right. The problem with refutations though is they are only as good as the person who actaully knows them...which is why I said originally: "Is any opening any good? Depends how you play it, under what circumstance and against who"....Why else do you think that the likes of so called chess opening inventors like Brian Wall and Clyde Nakamura get away with playing such snake oil openings as they do??

Well someone who knows the Sodium Attack and has the priviledged position of playing titled players on chess.com should try it out against them in live. Then maybe we can assess how it fairs with other established black counter openings. 

It's superb. Play it!

Sure its playable a friend of mine is rated 1589 (highest 1600ish) and he got that rating by playing 1.Na3 as one of his main openings in OTB CLASSICAL play since he was rated in the 1100s ! (2 1/2 years ago)  which just goes to show there just might be no such thing as a bad opening. I play it to when bored.

Robert Durkin did more or less the same thing. Played 1.Na3 most of the time and took his rating past master level...

You can play almost any opening up until 2000, but many of them fail after that, why not study an opening you can use forever?

The fred?

well if those are the choices, i guess you are a fool