Black KILLER QUEEN of the Englund Gambit!
#EnglundGambit
The Englund Gambit is somewhat dodgey, but very winning at the beginner level. In fact, when GM Hikaru Nakamura and IM Levy Rozman when through openings for beginners, they placed the Englund Gambit in "Legit" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CwH47r6og&t=2223s). However, they placed it in "Tricks Only" for intermediate players (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCVdrmKHdiI&t=1060s).
At my level currently, it is still super-fun as most people will enter/transpose into the Main Line (1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Bf4 Qe7 4. Nf3) and this potentially allows for absolute mayhem with the black killer queen destroying White's material with (4... Qb4+). The queen gives a triple fork - king, bishop, pawn.
In this game, the b2 pawn falls to the queen (5... Qxb2), then the rook (8... Qxa1), and then the knight (9... Qxb1+). And finally, on move 12, the queen sacrifices herself for the white queen (12... Qxc3+). Our killer queen has left White's queen-side in ruins. It has dragged the king into the middle of battle on c3, killed all of White's queen-side pieces having captured 18 points of material, and left the queen-side pawns stunned and isolated. Stockfish gives the evaluation at the black queen's exit at [-12.5].
My opponent valiantly played on, but resigned on move 26. We had entered an endgame where I was up two pieces and a pawn, and according to the engine, there was a forced mate in 9 moves. Good game!
Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/58750783679
