I am relatively unfamiliar with the Smith-Morra, but because I play the Sicilian as black, I should be more so.  The white player seems to play it every chance he gets. Nevertheless, he is highly aggressive, and (I believe) deviated from book enough to give me an undeserved gift. 

I posted this for several little reasons.  The common lesson of a pre-mature attack before development, most Smith-Morra traps are to white's benefit and thought I should share one that was not, and most importantly, I am curious to know if this is a "known" trap, or is it even really a trap? If he hadn't cooperated as he did, would black have still  benefitted.  The ratings are USCF and both guesses. I was up to 1838, but have recently been playing so poorly I'm scared to look. 

I feel the move: 6. Bf4 is very naive.  Normally 6. Bc4 is played.  The timing and placement of Whites dark-squared bishop is critical in the S-M Gambit.  Often White will have played: 0-0, Qe2, and Rfd1, before developing this bishop.  Chess author, Janos Flesch, has some interesting analysis with Bf4 in certain variations, however depending on circumstances, Be3/Bg5 can be played.

That looks like a fried liver attack, if so, there are some good articles about it here at chess.com.

Kaniksu,

I completely agree with you and appreciate and respect your more expert input, especially the reasons for not playing 6Bf4 well beyond my "I've never seen this" or whatever I said in the move list.  I still wonder though, that if from that point on, had white played it correctly, did black play it correctly.  Was 6...d6 (which might let me later kick his bishop with e5 and recover a tempo) or even 6...a6 called for?  Such were both my immediate defensive instincts, but they were countered by my frustration (common to early S-M accepted positions) of being 2 tempos behind and wanting to get pieces out and castled quickly.  I even thought of 6...Bb4 but I think black wants to keep that bishop covering d6 and if 7.a3 he either fails to do so or loses another tempo.

I may well have played it correctly.

b_sheers,

I truly appreciate all consideration and all input and believe in a polite and civilized world, with such in mind, I say with intent to encourage your future efforts, that this is so far removed from the fried liver, that I think you must have meant something else.

Thank you both.

donn_gee wrote: hey why did the king moved you could have covered

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My analysis is in the "move list" or may be read beneath the moves. My monitor,(and probably yours) does not show this conveniently unless I either scroll up and down or key F11, a trick I only recently found to get rid of the tool bars. All 3 minor piece interventions negate his attack and he was myopic on Nc7 or d6. I played black.

I think white misplayed the opening ..

 

I have annotated the game you played and poetic liberty with your annotations..

please check out an example of the SMG here