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I call this one "The Tidal Wave." You basically just push the fuck out of your pawns and overwhelm the opponent.
Not a new idea. Philidor played openings that involved a lot of pawn storming without touching much of the other pieces all the way back in the 1700s.

The downside to such play is that if your opponent finds a way to get around your pawn tsunami, you have far too many weaknesses for your pieces to defend without their infantry. So go ahead and march all your pawns, just realize that it's probably not a sound idea and you're going to lose to strong players regularly.
YOu guys are stupid the Tsunami is unbeatable, play me in a game and I'll destroy you easily.
MouseSlip, don't talk about his rating. You're just as bad, except you actually take the time to point out others' flaws.
Get a good rating, then we'll talk
By the way, best opening is e4 b5. Never lost a real game with it
Carso, "pushing the f### out of my pawns" is what I basically do when the opponent has castled his king on the opposite side of where I castled my king, but I would not try that in the opening. :)

One example:

Let's imagine I casteled my king on the right side and the opponent on the left side. Then I can easily use my pawns on the left side to increase the pressure on the opponent's king bit by bit, especially when I have no other idea about how to attack him in another way due to lack of material or a positional disadvantage (for example when the opponent's defense is too strong).
http://de.lichess.org/ahAqZSXe/

Take a look at the example above. I was not really concentrated at the beginning of the game so that I lost a knight and a bishop. At move #10 the game was already over for me and I guess some people would have resigned in my position, but I traded two more pieces instead (my last knight and my last bishop), before I finally started storming the black king with my pawns on a2 and b2 at move #23.

To be honest: This game was very amateurish and the only reason I won was that my opponent made more mistakes in the end than I did, but this is a good example of my strategy:

Pawns can be used to create something out of nothing, especially when you have a clear disadvantage of material.
you guys are oblivious to think that this opening isn't the best opening ever

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