
Winning Coffeehouse chess !
now that the classical world chess championship is over, we can turn to blitz and rapid, and maybe also coffee chess !
https://www.fide.com/news/1473
Poland will hold the Blitz/Rapid World Chess Championship. I think that Magnus will join. But what about Nakamura ? What about Firouzja ?
Coffeehouse was described on this picture below and this recent blog entry
https://www.chess.com/blog/thechesscorner64/coffeehouse-chess-anyone
There I made the case for interesting lines using 1.e4 against the sicilian, the french defense, the caro-kann and also 1e4 e5.
Lets the games showing Winning Chess CoffeeHouseStyle !
and now the game by @Hikaru
if Black tries e7-e6, here's a key moment in the opening
and here's a model game
onto the Caro-Kann
and here's the full game
The french defense can be overcome in coffeehouse style !
and finally a game featuring 2.Bc4 followed by 3.Nc3 transposing into the Vienna Game 2.Nc3