1.A4 Chess Opening Theory

@NoobBatter
Did you hear!? Aparrently e4 is now the least played opening! And did you know that Carlsen retired and chess and started casino gambling? Did you also know that uschess and FIDE shut down their operations?

an a4 trap!

Play the Cabbage Attack

@Mate_On_f7
I looked at your study with the "a4 trap" which ends up with a crippled king on blacks side.
But for it to work the opponent would need to take your worst knight on a3, I highly doubt that any player would take the a3 knight. But if their was a way to maybe play B-b3 instead right away?
Thank you for showing me this idea, It opens up a spectrum idea for B-a3

Th delayed 1 Nf3 d5 2 a4 c5 3 e4 is decent for white. It is a reverse Budapest Gambit, where a4 is useful. 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e5

Just played a game with 1.a4 and won
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If any pawn or piece that can be moved from move 1 is a good enough option for the game of Chess to allow then any of these moves are good enough for me. A great GM friend of mine said, "Openings are mostly bull*. Just get to safety (middle-game) and beat your opponent in tactics (end-game)."

A4 is quite a colorful and versatile opening in it's own right; quite difficult, and truly impossible to refute in itself though lines born off of it are surely refutable but not all.

@Liberty1776 who is your grandmaster friend?
What your GM friend has some truth, but I would suspect some openings can still make you lose even after going 2-3 moves into them. A4 doesn't make you lose right away if you transverse it into the right opening

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This is game with me playing 1.A4 against a lichess 1823 , I am rated 1784