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1. a3!?

This is a commonly underrated opening. It is a waiting move to "play Black with White" and to play a reversed Chebanenko Slav.
The "problem" is that you didn't control the center with this move. So I recommended doing so on the second move, like this:

With a reversed Chebanenko/Chameleon Slav (Look that up if you don't know it)
What if Black plays 1...e5? Easy:

With a reversed Caro-Kann (Well known opening).
Also there is a well known bullet/ultrabullet system, arising from many different move orders:

Well, I play 1. ... g6 and say thank you for taking the White pieces.

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