User:George.kvakovszky/Sandbox

As content creator, I object to the move of the article ‘Bernard Parham’ to draftspace. Unfortunately, I have been unable to figure how to move this article back to mainspace. Perhaps someone can help me.

Nevertheless, I have performed exact Google searches for the following phrases. Hits are in parentheses: 1)	Parham Attack/Parham opening (3,710) 2)	Wayward Queen Attack/Opening (3,638) 3)	Danvers Attack/Opening (2,976) 4)	Patzer Opening (1,382)

Calling this chess opening the 'Danvers Opening' is sub-optimal, especially in view of the fact that the overwhelming majority of living chess players refer to this opening as the ‘Parham Attack’. I find it curious that the contribution of National Master, Bernard Parham, who is Black, have been minimized. The other terms are archaic, pretentious, quirky and bizarre and appear primarily in the literature prior to the year 1900.

I am afraid Crisco 1492, et al. have missed the point regarding Bernard Parham’s notability. Nobody claimed that the sequence of moves 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 had never been played before. Given enough time, a monkey typing at a keyboard, would reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. The point is that Bernard Parham took an obscure, discredited opening and played it during his entire chess career against Master level opposition, with success. The Parham Attack has now been played at Grandmaster level, by Hikaru Nakamura, and has been discussed in the Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) newspaper as a potentially requiring a 'grand rethink" of chess.

Parham’s maximum USCF rating was over 2300, which is International Master level, and he did this by playing the Parham Attack exclusively as White. Parham was also awarded the National Master title in 2002 by USCF. By the way, nobody in the world calls this opening the Danvers Opening. It is referred to, in over two hundred counties, as the Parham Attack. As content creator, it is my considered judgment that this entry is well referenced, and marking it as draft is also a mistake. This article should be restored as a wikipedia entry in its original format. Moreover, the Wikipedia entry ‘Danvers Opening’ should be renamed/redirected to the new entry ‘Parham Attack’.

From content creator George.kvakovszky Monday March 9, 2022