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Scandinavian Defense: Tennison Gambit, ICBM Variation
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Scandinavian Defense: Tennison Gambit, ICBM Variation

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What's the weirdest/coolest/most interesting opening name?

The Sicilian Dragon?
The Halloween Gambit?
The Orangutan Opening?

How about the intercontinental ballistic missile?

We start with the unassuming Scandinavian Defense: 1. e4 d5.

Normally the natural move is 2. exd5, but instead we sack the pawn, doing 2. Nf3 instead (This is the Tennison Gambit):

When Black takes, we go 3. Ng5, which he will follow up with 3... Nf6.

We offer another pawn with 4. d3, and he will take with 4... exd3. We recapture with 5. Bxd3. Now black kicks our knight with 5... h6, and we sack again with 6. Nxf7.

The only move is to take back, 6... Kxf7, and we sack for the third time with 7. Bg6. At this point it doesn't matter if black takes or not, because we finally get to launch our ICBM (take your pick, but I like the submarine-launched UGM-133 Trident II D5) with 8. Qxd8.

Black is lost, down a queen for two pieces.

You can decide if this is worth playing, but no matter what, this has got to be the opening with the most epic name!