Riff J. N. - Welling G 0-1 Pfalz Open 2015

IM Welling recent & nice win against GM Riff at the Pfalz Open

Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2015, Round 1 [White "Badrakh Galmandakh"] [Black "Alexander Motylev"] 1-0

White player was rated 2240 and Black's 2630..

Sometimes playing in Basman's style doesn't pay off

Sometimes playing an early g4 move in Basman's style doesn't pay dividents even if white is a very strong GM:

Basman in action at the London Chess Classic Rapidplay 2014

In a previous post we talked about the game:
Basman,Michael J - Giri,Anish [A00] London Chess Classic Rapidplay 2014 
Mike Basman's tournament card from the London Chess Classic Rapidplay 2014

is fully respectable if we consider that Basman is 68 years old now and he doesn't play serious chess very often:
see link to the FIDE Rating's site
We have great respect for this chess genius and we would be more than happy to be able to see the game scores of Basman's wins & draws against players rated > Elo 2.400 ...... :-)
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WE LOVE MIKE BASMAN'S CHESS 

A review of "The Steps method"

A nice & detailed review of "The Chess Steps" method

1.e4 Nh6 tournament game between FIDE rated players above 2.250

Basman,Michael J - Giri,Anish [A00] London Chess Classic Rapidplay 2014

During the recent London Chess Classic Rapidplay, IM Basman played against super GM Anish Giri. Of course he played "his stuff": 1.g4
Basman lost the game, but after 13 moves the game would have been very interesting and approximately equal, had Basman played 13.Bg5!? instead 13.h5?!

IMO the difficulty with 1.g4 is that it is much easier to go astray with it than in standard openings. 

Basman,Michael J - Giri,Anish [A00]

London Chess Classic Rapidplay (5.6), 06.12.2014

1.g4 d5 2.h3 e5 3.Bg2 c6 4.d4 e4 5.c4 Be6 6.Nc3 Ne7 7.f3 Ng6 8.fxe4 dxe4 9.Bxe4 Bxc4 10.Nf3 Bb4 11.Qc2 Nd7 12.h4 Nf6 13.h5 [better is  13.Bg5 (see diagram) Qd6 14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.0–0–0 and the game is open to every possible result]