SeaWing7000 wrote:
I don't recommend you play this opening but it still is funny: the toilet variation, which was created in a bathroom by a Sicilian Grand Prix player.
no it isnt
Does anyone know any rare openings with high win%?
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Apr 14, 2023
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Ilampozhil25 wrote:
SeaWing7000 wrote:
I don't recommend you play this opening but it still is funny: the toilet variation, which was created in a bathroom by a Sicilian Grand Prix player.
no it isnt
That's true I made a mistake.
it depends on the line. if you look at amateur games and follow the stats, you find piles of dead kings around trap lines like "the zeller ice queen" in the blackmar diemer gambit, which, sadly, I don't get to play because I do better in the 3.f3 gedult than the 3.Nc3 BDG proper I'd need to play for it. it scores something like 80%, but it's not the main line
The Gaw-Paw Variation is a tricky sideline in the Sicilian but the Four Knights …e6 Sicilian is more sound
I do have a nice surprise weapon against the Queen’s Gambit with the Winawer Countergambit which gives Black the best winrate compared to any other variation on Lichess. I’ll show you the main line so you get an idea
Anyone know of some somewhat uncommon/rare openings that have unusually high win percentages? I found the rat defense (1.d4 d6 2. c4 e5) which has a 43% win rate for black and 27% for white, at the master level anyone know other openings like this?
No, because if they had a high win percentage, they wouldn't be rare!
Eh, that's not really true at all. There are many unpopular openings that score very well for the side playing them.
Yeah, because they are played at the chump level only and chumps don't know how to defend.
In a battle between a pair of 1600 players, the game could start 1.e4 e5 or 1.a4 h5 and it would make no difference!
I mean as I mentioned in the post, the rat defense is an opening for black which at master level has a 43% win rate for black and only 27% for white. The players at the master level are certainly not chumps, so....
Masters are Chumps.
Grandmasters are not Chumps!