Do you know the Scotch?

It goes,

It has been proven that if White can reach this position,

he has won the game.

(source: meniscus)

Anyway, it is clear here that White gets all the space he likes, grabs the initiative, has more space than his opponent, and is psycholgically leading.

Black takes the pawn, usually, but if you look carefully, isn't Black giving up the center? Also, White can play the main line by taking the pawn (my goodness, would you look at that?! White has a beautiful center, complete with Knight and pawn!!). White dominates the scene; Black can only try to fight back, but remember,

"he (White) has won the game."

There is also some who love to torture and choose not to take that poor pawn, but resort instead to the Goring Gambit (my favourite....).

The move c3 offers the pawn in exchange for development and initiative (if you take with Knight, you do not lead in development, but you get the center. It depends on what you prefer; you can just choose! Hehehe). Black should take the pawn or else he will be seriously stumped (at least he will go down like a man...). White can then play Nxc3 (gain development) or let Black eat his way down into the lower-left corner, which offers a risky but exciting game for White. Risky as in that the game is now not necessarily a won game for White.

Anyway, last but not least, you can also play Bc4 after the Black pawn takes your center pawn. This is known as the Scotch Gambit, and offers development and the center. meniscus plays this line, and this line leads to explosive combinations, and there are even some which leds to checkmate - for Black!

All in all, if you are

1. interested to learn more about this fantastic opening

2. interested to get the chance to learn from the expert Scotch exponents

3. a fan of this opening

4. interested to play games with others while trying this opening out

5. curious

Click here.

i disagree. lets start a game at this position and i will win you.

Hey, check the fine print.

It has been proven that if White can reach this position,

he has won the game.

(source: meniscus)

No. That's not the best move...

Which?

I didn't realize that meniscus was such an authority.

Thank you for solving chess.

Why so many different colours? I can't read things with such varying contrast!

what about black reaches the center like,

you obviously aren't a Scotch expert. Actually, neither am I but White should never take that Knight.

Do you know the Scotch?

It goes,

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It has been proven that if White can reach this position,

he has won the game.

(source: meniscus)

Anyway, it is clear here that White gets all the space he likes, grabs the initiative, has more space than his opponent, and is psycholgically leading.

Black takes the pawn, usually, but if you look carefully, isn't Black giving up the center? Also, White can play the main line by taking the pawn (my goodness, would you look at that?! White has a beautiful center, complete with Knight and pawn!!). White dominates the scene; Black can only try to fight back, but remember,

"he (White) has won the game."

There is also some who love to torture and choose not to take that poor pawn, but resort instead to the Goring Gambit (my favourite....).

The move c3 offers the pawn in exchange for development and initiative (if you take with Knight, you do not lead in development, but you get the center. It depends on what you prefer; you can just choose! Hehehe). Black should take the pawn or else he will be seriously stumped (at least he will go down like a man...). White can then play Nxc3 (gain development) or let Black eat his way down into the lower-left corner, which offers a risky but exciting game for White. Risky as in that the game is now not necessarily a won game for White. 

Anyway, last but not least, you can also play Bc4 after the Black pawn takes your center pawn. This is known as the Scotch Gambit, and offers development and the center. meniscus plays this line, and this line leads to explosive combinations, and there are even some which leds to checkmate - for Black!

All in all, if you are

1. interested to learn more about this fantastic opening

2. interested to get the chance to learn from the expert Scotch exponents

3. a fan of this opening

4. interested to play games with others while trying this opening out

5. curious

Click here.

(THIS ONE IS ALL BLACK ;)

Could you please stop spamming with quotes in huge letters from some "meniscus" ? And the variation given above is a known theoretical line.

what, some meniscus? He's a chess.com member!

he's an admin of the group ,too.

Hey, Billie Mays, is that you?  Thought you were just doing late night informericals.  Seems an odd lot for you to try and sell but the style is the same.  Here I thought my premium membership protected me from ads but you tricky purveyors of stuff not needed (like the aforementioned chess.com group) keep coming up with new ways to torment our innocent souls.

Next time at least make it funny.

Since the various fonts and text styles came from the person who started this thread, I don't consider it to be spam.  Whether or not you consider it to be annoying is a separate issue.  Also, since it was not advertising for profit, but only to attract membership to a chess.com group that plays this openeing, I don't consider it in the same category as late night infomercials.  Afterall, we all had a choice to either read or not read this thread.

In all honesty (and normal sized black letters) I agree 100% with Turn, this is the best try for people between 0-2400 by miles, because there is less theory and it is more interesting.

Even at 2400+ is it is best unless you want to memorize reams of theory to outprepare your opponents.

Nor do you need to read my response. Lighten up, have some fun, but really, the quality, volume, exaggerated claims of this don't put you in mind of an informerical? 

BTW I've gotten lots of spam with a variety of fonts and text styles from original sources so that is hardly a caveat on id'ing spam.  I'm not sure how spam got into the conversation.  I don't think the original post of the thread was spam nor did I say so.

I do like the Scotch opening, or is it the opening of the Scotch?  Its probably both, once the headache clears so will my thinking.

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