Talk:Chess Opening Theory/1. Na3

By what metric is 1...d5 better than 1...e5?
I'm sure whoever added that information to the text (I have no idea who, they were an IP editor) had a perfectly logical reason for believing that it was true, but I don't know what that reason could be. As it stands, I'm led to believe the opposite is true.

I spent a while thumbing through different chess game databases. Lichess catalogues five master-level games with 1.Na3 e5 and three with 1.Na3 d5; of the former, White won one, drew two, and lost two, while of the latter, White won all three. The Chess Tempo database, using the set of all games, yields a significantly higher win rate for Black with 1...e5 than with 1...d5: Link. I also looked at Chess.com's database, which lists one game with 1.Na3 e5 (a draw) and nine games with 1.Na3 d5 (four wins for White, a draw, and four wins for Black), but I don't know how helpful that is.

Overall, the evidence seems to suggest that 1...e5 is significantly more successful than 1...d5. Something seems wrong here. ISaveNewspapers (discuss • contribs) 06:22, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Nb1?
Is there any source for the section on the "Bensaid Variation"? I can find no evidence of this name, the game it is attributed to, or IM Isaac Bensaid. 96.5.246.62 (discuss) 16:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The closest I could find to the "Gibraltar Masters 2013" is the Gibraltar Chess Festival 2015, which neither Maxime Vachier-LaGrave nor anyone named Isaac Bensaid attended. I also can find no games on chessgames.com where Na3 and Nb1 were played. I believe this entire section is a hoax. 96.5.246.62 (discuss) 15:34, 5 December 2023 (UTC)