Who is HonestGirl ??

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Updated: Oct 16, 2021, 8:59 PM | 0

Who is GM HonestGirl ?

Well this is a strong anonymous GM, who chose St Kitts Flag.

Well St Kitts is a United Kingdom territory.

Also HONESTGIRL is a different letter order for NIGEL SHORT ( which was pointed out by a kibitzeer on this site)

Honestgirl doesnt stream but blitzes often on chess.com

Here's a game

7Qe2 was played fairly quickly in this Scandinavian

It is interesting because GM NIgel Short played the same move

Well to be fair, amongst GM Efimenko and Benjamin also played 7Qe2 but this is an interesting coincidence.

also another game by Short in the same position

Ok but thats only 1 variation

Let me show you a very direct attempt to win against the French Defense : you exchange on d5 but then you play 0-0-0 .

Here's a game by Short

I would say this variation exists, but this is not the most common way to meet the french.

Could it be honestgirl plays this variation online ?

the answer is yes

here's a beautiful win by GM HonestGirl using the same line

Of one more coincidence with Black pieces

This is a 2019 game by Short using the Chigorin defense

and here's an online game

well there's in no way to know for sure, but how likely it is to see so many similarities in 3 different openings ?

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