Who names obscure openings?
Today's chess.com "Opening of the day" is the Ware Defense: Snaglepuss Defense (A40).
http://www.chess.com/opening/eco/A40_Ware_Defense_Snaglepuss_Defense
This is pretty obscure. There are no games in the chess.com database. The Ware defense / Cornstalk defense is obscure enough (1.e4 a5). Do we really need anything more? But that's not my point, which is to ask how it gets this name given it's not played?
Who names these?
Is this amusement for the chess.com staff? Maybe instead of pension benefits, you get to name your own opening? I mean, what's retirement savings compared to the immortality of having an opening named after you?
Even 365chess has only one game with these opening moves, although it gets labeled "cornstalk opening" without furthere qualification.
http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=3666150
Naranjo Moreno (2275) vs. Andrades Marques
Event: Malaga ESP 2009 · Corn stalk defence (B00) · 1-0