Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated Singles Day As always in Bronznik's books

As always in Bronznik's books

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Youth chess

very entertaining and instructive at the same time

Weak point 2

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated Singles Day As always in Bronznik's booksWhich opening does better in practice: the wild, unsound and refuted Latvian Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5) or the solid Philidor Defence (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6)? As James Schuyler points out, referring to the definitive Megabase, the Latvian Gambit scores higher. How can such a discredited opening (and the same story is repeated with other unsound openings) do so well? The point is that playing like this throws the opponent off balance, makes them anxious and