Can you post a game where you opened with b4, as I don't recall having any
experience with it either as black or white.
I'll post (assuming I can find it) the last time I opened with e3, which was
probably 250 or so games ago.
Just for the record, I open with e4 as white approximately 95% of the time.
BTW the "oddest" opening I've faced as black was what my opponent called the  
"8 pawn attack" in which he started with a3, then b3, c3. etc.
As I reacll, this game was a draw.
He used it vs. 5 or so of my fellow chess club members, and did quite well.
Is such an off the wall reportoire sound? Obviously not BUT vs. book players,
well there's simply no theory so, you never know...
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