Very sensible comments below, yes.
Versus a weaker white player, playing the BDG (and it's very likely they will be weaker), I am quite happy to let the white player feel triumphant, wronged and manly ("hah, he bottled it", "he fears my BDG, I am dead hard, I am"), knowing that I will be on familiar territory, playing normal chess, and not on an obsessive's home turf. The BDG-ite can revel in those cheap triumphs as the 0-1 duly arrives on the scoreboard.
I actually find the BDG quite interesting. I bought the Everyman book on it and have played it online in blitz. Sound? Yes, maybe, no ,maybe not, I don't know. A good practical weapon and it is near enough sound to work okay up to a fairly high level I'd say. Good luck to those who play it.
But don't get too perturbed if black doesn't steam down a hacky line you looked at for hundreds of hours. He doesn't have to, and a practical wily opponent would likely not. It's a board game, and both players at the board have ideas what they want to do. Often they do not coincide.
Best wishes to whites, to blacks, to all, B
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