Botez Gambit A.K.A I don’t know what to call this

Here are two puzzles for y'all to solve. I came across both of these tactics in The Woodpecker Method, a classic tactics training procedure by Swedish (I think?) GM, Axel Smith. They both feature similar motifs and I just wanted to see if y'all were able to solve them.

Oh, also here's a random meme I thought of today that I'll post for no reason. (It's chess-related btw).

The vast majority of chess players: The underlying goal of all openings and defenses is to control the center.

B1ZMARK:

yay free puzzles

Grunfeld & KID players:

did you just change the title?

lmao he did

Yeah, I can’t think of a good title lol

lolol nice puzzles but easy

was easy once i saw that ne6 and nf6 would be checkmates if the queens weren't in the way

Iceyboy? I haven’t seen you since the dawn of B&M

We can’t all be +2100, Ninja

Lol

Nice puzzles, took me a few tries in the first, but once you said they were similar, I got second one first try

lol viznik let me come back after a while

i feel personally attacked i have never seriously considered a4 before

I have considered 1.a3 before though.

take this for example, i have an entire rep on it, here's a taste of 1.a3

also i beat a 1400 as black here

(unrelated)

find the best move for black to punish white's systematic play

Lol, that position actually isn’t half bad. For the meme I was going to use the Alekhine’s Defense, but I figured it could be argued that that does fight for central control.

can you share

all of it??