Talk:Grob's Attack

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[edit] Old talk

I'm not a Grob player, so I'm not up on this. In the variation mentioned in the article, 1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 Bxg4? 3.c4, does 2...Bxg4? really deserve the question mark? I think this move is played by some strong players (at least the ones who like to snatch pawns), and so perhaps a more accurate assessment might be 2...Bxg4!?. Any thoughts? Quale 21:05, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Changed accordingly. Also, "spike opening" only gets 910 hits on google, of which the first 9 out of 10 have nothing to do with chess. I suspect that this may be a very limited regional reference, and as such has no business in this article. I have removed it accordingly. Themindset 09:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
"Spike Opening" refers to the label Grob applied to this opening in his newspaper column.As such, I am going to reinstate this aspect of the wiki. RBPierce 17:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
MCO 14 refers to a specific variation as the spike J. M. 07:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Only white?

Why is Grob's only used for white? I've tried it a lot and it works pretty well for black too. Dan Guan 04:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

"Grob's Attack" is the name given to the opening move 1.g4. By definition it's an opening for White. 1.e4 g5 is a different opening, sometimes called the Borg defence (from "Grob" spelled backwards) or the Basman defence (after Michael Basman). 213.249.135.36 20:26, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Romford Countergambit

This is 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4 d4 4. Bxb4 Nd7 5. Bxa8 Qxa8 6. f3 d3. At the moment there is a diagram of the position after 6...d3 but no explanation or discussion of this line in the article. 91.105.5.242 02:51, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Czech animadversion

Hello,

  1. I'm sorry, but my English is terrible
  2. In article is written "In Czechoslovakia 1.g4 is called Fric's Opening..."
    1. Czechoslovakia end in 1992, now it's Czech Republic and Slovak Republic
    2. I'm from Czech Republic and i know something about chess and chess openings, but i never heard "Fric Opening".

--78.102.195.5 (talk) 11:40, 8 June 2008 (UTC) If you want to answer me, please write here: cs:User talk:Duff, thank you.