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“Resistance is futile”

Posted on February 14, 2008 By Liquid Egg Product 8 Comments on “Resistance is futile”
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In honor of Polly’s Wacky Wednesdays, here is my most humiliating loss on record.

Known as Basman’s Defense, the Reverse Grob, or the Borg (Grob spelled backwards, get it?), 1. e4 g5 is not used in serious play. For a while, I was entranced with this opening, seeing if I could make it work at the class level of play. The concept is to have a ready-made “spike” against a King castled Kingside, although the intent is made obvious way too soon.

This was my final attempt at using the Borg. The second move should be h6, but I forgot.

I haven’t tried this opening since, not even for fun.

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8 thoughts on ““Resistance is futile””

  1. David K, Seattle says:
    February 14, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    samsara= [skt for] suffering

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  2. Chessaholic says:
    February 14, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Ouch…

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  3. l3rucewayne says:
    February 15, 2008 at 12:23 am

    That does look painful. Has anyone else done 1. f3 e5 2. g4 Qh4# to themselves on accident long after they had learned (quite well) that this was the quickest checkmate?

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  4. Donnie says:
    February 15, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Thanks for the sentiments.

    Probably with f4 and g4, it’s happened before. No one plays f3.

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  5. Rocky says:
    February 15, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    That’s painful.

    What are you using for your game viewer?

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  6. l3rucewayne says:
    February 15, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    I did:-D I felt like playing wierd for fun, I just happened to pick the worst possible moves.

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  7. Polly says:
    February 15, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    That game is definitely Wacky Wednesday caliber. 🙂 I think you were assimulated by the Borgs.

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  8. Donnie says:
    February 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    @Rocky: chesspublisher.com is the game viewer.

    @l3rucewayne: Hmmm. Guess that you won’t be kind enough to play that during our match.

    @Polly: Based on what the Borg are supposed to be, I’d imagine they’d be pretty darn tough chess players.

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