A New Practice of Chess

The Beginner's Game and the B-system are not a complement to existing chess practice. They are a new framework for playing chess that did not exist until the present.  Rules defining sound opening play have been difficult to formulate in the past;  now they are made clear for everyone.

This system has not been presented before by anyone. A few players (eg. Nimzowitch, Reti, Petrosian, Larsen, Spassky) experimented with similar approach to opening play. But even this elite did not find this incredibly simple but supremely powerful system of playing chess!

In conventional chess the opening is a race to control the center, and quickly develops into skirmishes to contest it. The Beginner's Game is a tactical redeployment of one s forces, to arrive at a solid position for the ensuing conflict. It shows almost no reaction to the opponent play. It isn't just a new opening, it is a new concept of what the  opening in chess is all about!

As the Beginner's Game is occupied with its own deployment, the opponent is free to pursue whatever development he desires. The resulting adversary openings are the strongest that can be imagined!  They are the most powerful openings that have ever been seen in chess!  All of them are quite impossible to achieve in normal play, where their aggressive deployments are challenged and restricted.

The Beginner's Game typically faces an opponent who has opened more powerfully than is normally possible in chess.  But it confronts without difficulty any classical opening, even enlarged and aggressive versions of them. It fact it confronts any conceivable opening!  a nd it has shown to be stronger than any of them!  Unbelievable though this may seem, it appears to be true.

This is not a rote opening system: it is literally hundreds of times more complex in possible lines than any other system ever invented!  But all of the openings in this new system respect the same simple rules for opening play that make them really easy to understand and play correctly!

This system defines an immense space of openings, that has been largely unexplored until now. Most of the openings in this system have never been seen before!  But many of them, and in particular the standard opening, are certainly among the best that have ever been found in chess!

This system strives to produce predetermined positions after the opening. To achieve this, it must resist adversary play, as attacks during the opening, or as preparations for later attacks. Amazingly, the system rules practically insures this strong independence to adversary play!

Games resulting from play using this new system bear little resemblance to those seen to date in chess!  In fact the entire game that results is completely new, because opening positions on both sides of the board have never been seen before!  It's really   a totally new game of chess !