Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Least/Most Prefered Opening Moves...
Least: Ho hum frontal E4/D4. Most: Flank pawns with knights & bishops
in the fray. Why? Why not? If not us, whom? If not now, when? Yours?
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it appears to me GB that in the case of the queen pawn, because it is protected no one can really stop you from advancing it into the centre, at least in the beginning, so in the case of moves like ...c5, these merely take the sting out of it, now that being the case, then on ones first move, at least as white, one can with the greatest freedom put his king pawn in the centre safe in the knowledge that the queen pawn cannot be stopped.
read a little anecdote about the seventy year old Lasker, that great American, i think it was from Kasparovs great predecessor, in which he quotes Lasker, 'we read of the hyper modern that after making a series of moves they are able to report, white managed to get in .e4, a move that they could have accomplished at the very first try.'