Author: Gene Ward Smith
Date: 21:55:23 04/04/99
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On April 02, 1999 at 18:13:47, Charles Milton Ling wrote: >I do not think that the claim that 1. d4 is White's strongest move is "amazing". > Bogolyubov once wrote a book with the title "1. d4!"... (Of course, to claim >that Bogolyubov was the strongest Chess player ever, would, indeed, be amazing Gruenfeld once remarked that he played 1. d4 because he didn't make mistakes in the opening, a remark Fischer repeated, only for 1. e4. None of that is very amazing, but what would be amazing would be for any of it (including Berliner's notions) to be correct. They are almost certainly wrong, for a very simple reason: the enormous praxis of grandmaster level chess would reveal it. Opening systems are the result of a ruthless Darwinian process; weaknesses are exposed an exploited continually and relentlessly. The result is mislabled "theory" but it does give a deeper insight than any one person, with or without the aid of a system, is likely be able to.
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