I'm starting to learn some opening lines. I saw this thread about the best openings: lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/best-chess-openings
The Grob's Attack got upvoted early on in the thread. So I watched some tutorials on the attack. I tried it out yesterday and today. I played about 30 anonymous games (15mins+3sec). I can say that the attack was only successful about 2/30 games. The remaining games, the attack had to be aborted due to opponents skills were great enough to make the attack unsuccessful.
I imagine it would work against beginner player, or maybe bullet games.
In conclusion, I'm abandoning the attack and focusing on some other opening line.
So should attack be only attempted if you know your opponent is roughly a beginner? Playing anonymous , I don't know the actual rating of the players, but it did not go very well.
The Grob's Attack got upvoted early on in the thread. So I watched some tutorials on the attack. I tried it out yesterday and today. I played about 30 anonymous games (15mins+3sec). I can say that the attack was only successful about 2/30 games. The remaining games, the attack had to be aborted due to opponents skills were great enough to make the attack unsuccessful.
I imagine it would work against beginner player, or maybe bullet games.
In conclusion, I'm abandoning the attack and focusing on some other opening line.
So should attack be only attempted if you know your opponent is roughly a beginner? Playing anonymous , I don't know the actual rating of the players, but it did not go very well.