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After downloading it I fired it up. It appears to be targeted at speed players and guess what, I play allot of blitz online. That plus the fact that I like off beat openings was all I needed to try it. I have had so much fun with this crap over the last few days! 
I might even buy his book for black.
'I do agree with you! That makes sense.CornfedForever wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:45 pm Playing OTB in mostly G/45 to G/60.... 4-5 games per day, my thoughts also turned to unorthodox openings (mostly with White). I was playing rather a lot of 'up and commers', outplaying them with my trusty 1.g3 of 20+ years...only to fall behind a bit on the clock and blunder things away. I had hit my ratings floor and must say I gained 115 points or so in short order with the approach. Then COVID hit...
Online I started playing these as well - almost entirely in 3 min/0 delay games. I only played 2 games online yesterday (chess.com). One as White against a 2427 Blitz/2550 Bullet player. I opened 1. Nc3 play followed 1...d5, 2.e4 d4, 3. Nce2 and we went into a line I've played as White (even black since I play the Scandinavian) countless times. Checkmate followed on move 33.
OTB I played this for about 2 yrs before gravitating to 1.e3. Both quite successfully. I love teasing out specific hard to navigate lines/transpositions if one is not familiar with the positions that result.
While none of this is as weird and dubious as the Elshad stuff, the point may be similar to yours (?): get your opponents out of their favorite lines and patterns and make them think. Memorizing specific cutting edge lines to anything an opponent might play was never my forte, and at 58 and relatively lazy...well...I'd rather spend my time doing other things.
Reading your comments you sound like my twin brother from another mother.CornfedForever wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:45 pm Playing OTB in mostly G/45 to G/60.... 4-5 games per day, my thoughts also turned to unorthodox openings (mostly with White). I was playing rather a lot of 'up and commers', outplaying them with my trusty 1.g3 of 20+ years...only to fall behind a bit on the clock and blunder things away. I had hit my ratings floor and must say I gained 115 points or so in short order with the approach. Then COVID hit...
Online I started playing these as well - almost entirely in 3 min/0 delay games. I only played 2 games online yesterday (chess.com). One as White against a 2427 Blitz/2550 Bullet player. I opened 1. Nc3 play followed 1...d5, 2.e4 d4, 3. Nce2 and we went into a line I've played as White (even black since I play the Scandinavian) countless times. Checkmate followed on move 33.
OTB I played this for about 2 yrs before gravitating to 1.e3. Both quite successfully. I love teasing out specific hard to navigate lines/transpositions if one is not familiar with the positions that result.
While none of this is as weird and dubious as the Elshad stuff, the point may be similar to yours (?): get your opponents out of their favorite lines and patterns and make them think. Memorizing specific cutting edge lines to anything an opponent might play was never my forte, and at 58 and relatively lazy...well...I'd rather spend my time doing other things.
Man can I relate! Yeah I know right, crazy as hell. Can make for some really fun games in blitz, at least if you stop caring about the scoreboard.
Thanks, I watched the 1st game of the 1st video in the playlist. All I can say is I wish I could play that fast at 3 minute blitz as he did, especially with all that background chatter going on at the same time.purechess wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:05 pm Here is a playlist how Elshad himself plays it on Lichess. Looks at first very random but it isn't
His Lichess account
https://lichess.org/@/Elshad_64
I did add him to my follow list.