Owen's Defence

What about this 1. ♙e2-e4 ♟b7-b6 AKA Owen's Defence?

Anybody plays it? Any comments, caveats or other thoughts about it are appreciated (sagt man so?).

Unfortunately there is no meditation section on lichess.org, like on perlmonks.org.

Thanks and regards, Karl

Oh yea, you see that they are not front-end'ers without even looking ;)

I play it on occasion. There is a decent video introduction by GM Igor Smirnov if you would like an intro.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ACdKjp4QQ - Video 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEJdebvXQY - Video 2

It gives you really all the information you need to know aside from getting games of players and analyzing them, and analyzing the endgames.

Hope this helps,

Hallo Karlgoethebier ich spiele eigentlich immer 1....b6 auf 1.e4 Die Videos von Herrn Smirnov kenne ich auch. Übrigens kann man die Eröffnung auch gut mit Weiß spielen, also 1.b3. Auch hier hat Herr Smirnov zwei erstklassige Videos produziert.

I play it a lot as black (I'm a patzer) and love it-fairly unorthodox so many unexplored traps for most lower ranked 'aggressive' whites. I play Guatemala half the time too which tends to create a lopsided board and cramped game for black, but is very sturdy

Thanks to all that replied for their valuable notes.

Best regards, Karl