Yes nice one, I fell for it myself a while ago. Terrible way to go
This is also known as Kostic's Trap I believe. It is a nice one, I have tried it once in a game, but it didn't work out because white didn't play all the moves like in the trap, and I had only memorized the moves without trying variations.
5.Ng4 Qxg2 becomes rook+pawn for knight? or another trap Rg1 Nxf3+ maybe?I dont know the variations so just guessing. after Nxf3+ comes Qxf3 Qxh1+ and then something like Qg6 to avoid fool's mate.
Bxf7+... would result in sacrificing pieces for messing up the structure.
I think it's mainly for quick games. Enough things to do about it.But I'll try it, definately
Why it's very small?? I'll make a bigger one so I can easily look at it...
Broze, look at this!
Instead of 5) Nxf7 - Bxf7 could be a reply.
I might have seen this in Bill Wall’s collection of short games (I think it’s in the download section).
Bill Wall does indeed have an excellent page on the Blackburne-Shilling gambit, and there are many moves that don't work for white. This game even showed up in the Luzhin Defense, where the child prodigy beats his father with it. The safest/soundest reply is probably 4 NxNd4 where some of Bill Wall's variations win quickly and in my experience, it wins as well, Wall also discusses 4 0-0 and 4c3 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/shilling.htm but if you want to have fun, try 4Bxf7+. Lots of possibilities, but I beat ChessMaster 10 with it and it seems to win in other games on the web.
http://www.chesslive.de/ has several.
Eric Shiller mentions a possibly sounder variation (sounder than 4Bxf7+ not sounder than 4NxNd4) and the only variation that encourages 4Ne5.
4 Nxe5 Qg5 5 Bxf7+ Ke7 6 O-O Qxe5 7 Bxg8 Rxg8 8 c3 in Unorthodox Chess Openings though he goes on to say after 8...Nc6 9 d4 he is not sure of the advantage.
that's why you never take the pawn in a speed game..
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