What is join the mile high club, if you're JD Vance?

Yeah, I'm an amateur who is usually wrong. As a professional, I am almost always wrong. Takes a special kind of asshole to be usually right.

Hell yeah!

Fwiw, I recently called Nichols' writings as "sneering condescension". It seems like "sneering" actually lodged in his subconscious.

The irony is that the extra one or two tempos w normally spends developing the queen for O-O-O come at an extremely high cost in the opening.

1 h4 is devious because it steals at least one tempo from b instead, although tricky because black might be able to cash in for a pawn or shift kside

Oh, the full *eleventh circuit*?

mmm... :-/

Depends on what forces black has trained on whites qside. Nc3 provides some short-term protection. In a pinch, the extra tempo of Kb1 later in the game is usually not too bad. (And a3 might already have been played to control b4.)

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