CARTE: Basman s Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!?, by Carsten HansenCyrus Lakdawala

Is the Grob Basman a con artist 39;s bogus-operandi, or is the line actually sound? The truthful answer is that the opening is a bit of both! And we can call 1 g4 a good opening, the same way a mob member calls a hitman colleague a stand-up guy....